Fathers and Sons
- Author Howard Cunnell
- Narrator James Lailey
- Publisher Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date 9 March 2017
- Run Time 6 hours and 18 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, Gender studies: men and boys, Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, Memoirs, Parenting: advice and issues, Relationships and families: advice and issues.
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What to expect
Was he thinking, do I have to be this kind of boy to survive? Is this what being a boy is?
As a boy growing up on the south coast of England, Howard Cunnell's sense of self was dominated by his father's absence. Now, years later, he is a father, and his daughter is becoming his son.
Starting with his own childhood in the Sussex beachlands, Howard tells the story of the years of self-destruction that defined his young adulthood and the escape he found in reading and the natural world. Still he felt compelled to destroy the relationships that mattered to him.
Saved by love and responsibility, Cunnell charts his journey from anger to compassion, as his daughter Jay realizes he is a boy, and a son.
Most of all, this is a story about love - its necessity and fragility, and its unequalled capacity to enable us to be who we are.
Deeply thoughtful, searingly honest and exquisitely lyrical, Fathers & Sons is an exploration of fatherhood, masculinity, authenticity and family.
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