Your Father's Room

Michel Deon is a member of the Academie francaise. Born in Paris in 1919, he is the author of more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction. He lives in Ireland.

'Wryly funny prose ... a delight' Independent on Sunday; 'It is shamefully parochial of us that this eminent writer has been so ignored' Sunday Times; 'A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... leaves you feeling better about life' The Spectator; 'Deserves a place alongside Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Le Grand Meaulnes' New Statesman