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Title: His Father's Son

Author: Tony Black

Narrator: John Cormack

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-14

Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. Its a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can forget the troubles of the past.

Theres a good life, a new house, regular work, and, in time, they welcome their new son, Marti, into the world. Joeys wife has been struggling, their marriage is on the rocks and suddenly, she disappears taking Marti with her. Then, when Joey gets word that his wife and son have returned to Ireland, he knows that hell now have to do the same. And he also knows that hell finally have to confront the ghosts of his past.

Members Reviews:

Wonderful, evocative and heartwarming....

First of all my grateful thanks to the publisher for sending me an advanced copy of this wonderfully moving book. Tony Black, well known for his outstanding crime fiction takes a break from that and I for one am very pleased that he did.

Joey Driscol moves his family to Australia in the hopes of a new beginning. For a time the family live happily but when Joey's wife disappears back to their native Ireland, taking their son Marti with her, Joey is forced to follow if he is to see them again.

This is such a beautifully written story - the characters and the settings come to life and the ups and downs of daily life and those things that can haunt us are brilliantly imagined but oh so realistic. The relationship explored between father and son is magnificent, not just Joey and Marti but Joey and his own father- heart wrenching and appealing, the demons Joey must face from his past in order to secure his and his families future will keep you turning the pages until you are done. My heart was with his wife - Shauna - she suffered as I suffer - a lot of what she has to face to deal with the "Black Dog" are things that I have had to face myself. What made this all the more wonderful for me was seeing the other side. Joey lives with Shauna's issues - decisions they take and have taken both separately and together make up the world that Marti finds himself living in....if the family are ultimately going to find redemption, its going to be a hard road. I felt for each and every one of them.

This is an emotional story to be sure. Poignant yes. It also has its humour - cleverly paced and bittersweet I highly recommend that you pick a copy of this up as soon as it is available. Mr Black can write more than crime fiction thats for sure. I hope he continues to do so.

A powerful emotional punch

'His father's son' by Tony Black is cleverly told from two distinct POV's, that of Joey- an ex-pat Irishman living in Australia- and his young son Marti. Joey has taken his family to Australia to escape a painful past back in Ireland but when his troubled wife Shauna runs off with Marti, Joey is forced to confront some unwelcome and uncomfortable truths as he fights to get his family back.Tony Black's first non-crime fiction novel is just as gripping and tightly written as his previous books and packs a powerful emotional punch.

Totally different Black fare, excellent writing

Tony Black writes gritty, hard hitting crime and police procedurals which are right up my street. His respective protagonists, Dury and Brennan, are excellent characters, so much so that I immediately reach for Tony's books on publication.

I admit I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked up His Father's Son, from the description it is at the opposite end of the scale.