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Neil Griffiths - Wrong Son, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Wrong Son

A memoir

Av Neil Griffiths

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The Wrong Son is a memoir of emotional precision - a searching, unsparingaccount of what it means to come into being in the absence of love.In 1963, a young husband loses his pregnant wife and eighteen-month-old sonin a car accident. Six months later, he meets a woman who abandons her ownhusband and child for him - a man who seems to her everything she has everwanted.Within two years, a boy is born into this family of grief and guilt, into a housealready filled with ghosts, where neither parent can see him clearly throughwhat each has lost.His mother demands perfection. His father, meanwhile, decides early on thatthis child exists only because the first one died - and cannot forgive him for it.Moulded by his mother, rejected by his father, he is given no space in which tobecome himself.Throughout his life, no matter how much he tries to invent himself, he is drivenby the fear that nothing real exists underneath. Fifty years on, after his parents'deaths, that fear begins to unmoor him.He turns to the work of psychoanalysts who were pioneers of early childhoodpsychology around the time he was born.Drawing on the insights of D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, The Wrong Sontraces a life shaped not only by loss and violence, but by psychic damage thatmay never fully be shaken off.With forensic clarity and unexpected humour, The Wrong Son is a quietlydevastating work: deeply human, psychologically attuned, and unafraid to staywith what cannot be resolved.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-28
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 268 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 230
  • Förlag: Weatherglass Books
  • ISBN: 9781068176692
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Neil Griffiths is a novelist, publisher and founder of the literary prize, TheRepublic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, now the Queen MarySmall Press Fiction Prize. His first novel, Betrayal in Naples was winner of theAuthors' Club Best First Novel Award, Saving Caravaggio was short-listed forthe Costa Best Novel Award 2007, his last novel is the critically acclaimed As aGod Might Be.

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“The page-turning quality of the best fiction with the astute self-awareness of the best memoir.”Lily Dunn, Sins of My Father “... a strangely propulsive, absorbing read.” Sara Baume, Seven Steeples “Simply put, I couldn’t leave it alone.” Marina Benjamin, A Little Give “An incredible achievement.” Erin Vincent, Fourteen Ways of Looking “This book is here to stay.” Susanna Crossman, Home is Where We Start “Nothing about this superb account feels unfair or forced. It is a case study of misdirected emotions, and the best thing Neil Griffiths has written.” Will Eaves, Murmur “Neil Griffiths has written an existential ghost story. In lean, eviscerating prose, he shows how the bludgeoning dramas of the past threaten to deform the chance at a real self.” Sally Bayley, No Boys Play Here “The Wrong Son is necessary, powerful and written with piercing accuracy.” Alice Jolly, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns “A brilliant anatomy of a deeply wounding childhood ...” Rebecca Abrams, When Parents Die

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