The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal
- Author William Leith
- Narrator William Leith
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 6 hours and 52 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Coping with drug and alcohol problems, Family and health, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss.
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What to expect
'What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday
Ten seconds before my father’s death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking will be his last.
William Leith’s childhood was marked by his father’s absences and as a consequence their relationship has always been a troubled one. Now, as his father lies dying, William reflects on the connections and ruptures that have marked their shared history. Can he ever really understand his father? Is there an explanation for the physical distance and emotional chasm that his father has maintained between them? And what was he running away from?
Darkly comical and told with searing honesty, The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a moving memoir about the pain of abandonment, grief and regret.
Critics Review
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PRAISE FOR THE CUT THAT WOULDN’T HEAL: The Cut That Wouldn’t Heal should be depressing, but it is in fact weirdly exhilarating, largely because the author tracks his own feelings, however untoward, with a darkly comical precision … What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising.
The Mail on Sunday -
Honest without oversharing, William Leith is such a perfect writer … The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a triumph and deeply moving. Wonderful.
Justin Webb -
William Leith is a very fine writer, defined by a compulsive honesty: not the heavily-curated oversharing of social media culture, but the real, uncomfortable thing. This book, which deals in the sometimes absurdist agonies of grief – and indeed of life – is his best yet.
Laura Thompson -
A reckoning with the past by a writer whose past offers plenty to reckon with … Pacily written … satisfyingly structured
Times Literary Supplement -
An intensely readable study of love and regret.
Ian Jack -
As mysterious and unsettling as a Cold War thriller – the search for self amidst the puzzle of a brilliant absentee father.
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