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The Dead Fathers Club

By: Matt Haig
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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About this listen

From the number one Sunday Times best-selling 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?

©2007 Matt Haig (P)2018 Canongate Books Ltd Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction Fiction Thought-Provoking Haunted Short Story

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What a unique way to tell a story of the loss of a child's father. Told from the child's point of view, missing his father, and his mother marrying his father's brother within 3 months. Great story, and very ell narrated.

Just brilliant!

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I was really endeared to the main character, made all the better by the narrator who was great - brilliant voices.

Loved it.

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Hamlet for children may seem like a tragic mix. What Matt Haig manages is allowing some hope into the narrative without lessening its pain, meaning or beauty. That is its magic.

Doesn’t let straying into the dark disrupt from searching for the light

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I did not enjoy this story at all. I kept hoping it would get better, but alas it did not

I usually love Matt Haig but this one is a dud

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overall an alright story, just a couple of things that annoyed me,

1) the amount of times characters said "What?"

2) the ending felt a bit rushed and while it is obvious what is Implied, it could have been better.

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