fathers and sons - a memoir
Dazzlingly beautiful, this is truly heart-stopping writing: a unique and hard won perspective unfolded in lucid and unforgettable prose.
Financial Times
A modern masterpiece.
Cathi Unsworth, author of Bad Penny Blues
A miracle of a book: sad, wise, strong and hopeful.
Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways
There is so much aching love in this book, such pain and beauty. Behold, and rejoice.
Tim Winton, author of Cloudstreet
Nothing stopped my heart quite like Howard Cunnell's Fathers and Sons. A fragmentary but utterly lucid multigenerational memoir in which the experience of fatherhood and the demands of masculinity are delicately parsed from all possible angles, it stood out for me for the extraordinary quality of Cunnell's prose: glancing, agile, heartsore, preternaturally perceptive and above all, tender. A unique, and uniquely beautiful book.
Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time
