The dead fathers club - matt haig

A ghost story with a twist, from Matt Haig, the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.

Matt Haig has an empathy for the human condition, the light and the dark of it, and he uses the full palette to build his excellent stories.

--Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis.

His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husbands brother, Uncle Alan.

The remaining certainties of Philips life crumble away when his fathers ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.

Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghosts relentless demands for revenge.

But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?.