The Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig
“You are meant to be frightened when you see a ghost but I was not frightened because it felt completely normal which is weird because I had never seen a ghost before. He was just standing there behind the smoke of Big Vics cigar and he was looking at me and not scared of my eyes like everyone else was.”
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Stop Time and The Humans
FROM THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband’s brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip’s life crumble away when his father’s ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.
Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost’s relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?
“Humorous and original”
daily Mail
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“A story … so surprising and strange that it vaults into a realm of its own”
guardian
“Both funny, surreal and at times full of very black humour”
sunday Express
“Totally engrossing”
observer
“Touching, quirky and macabre”
s Magazine, Sunday Express
Matt Haig
Matt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The Humans and The Radleys. As a writer for children and young adults he has won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. His work has been published in over forty languages.
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