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What makes a father violent? It takes a brave man to find out . . . As a volunteer at St Margaret s Hospice, eager and helpful Meryl is looking for a role in life. The arrival of Jamie, the son of a patient, may be just what she is after. He is good-looking, young and, above all, troubled. Jamie s father has only a few days to live, but between father and son is a lifetime of misunderstanding and unhappiness. Could the most powerful legacy Jamie faces be an inability to love? With well-meaning Meryl hovering in the background, Jamie embarks on his long dark night of the soul, facing the secrets, lies and heartbreaks behind his father s life. Meanwhile his dying father, seemingly unconscious to it all, relives his extraordinary history, from the triumphs of his life as a boxer, to the onset of a crippling illness he doesn t understand. And in the quiet of the night, he receives strange visitors of his own .Product Identifiers
PublisherTransWorld LTD
ISBN-139780385614122
eBay Product ID (ePID)87189612
Product Key Features
Book TitleSlaughterhouse Heart
AuthorAfsaneh Knight
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2008
Dimensions
Item Height223mm
Item Width141mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorAfsaneh Knight
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom