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Title: Let Go My Hand

Author: Edward Docx

Narrator: Daniel Weyman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-20-17

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Louis Lasker loves his family dearly - apart from when he doesn't. There's a lot of history. His father's marriages, his mother's death; one brother in exile, another in denial; everything said, everything unsaid. And now his father (the best of men, the worst of men) has taken a decision which will affect them all and has asked his three sons to join him on one final journey across Europe.

But Louis is far from sure that this trip is a good idea. His older half brothers are wonderful, terrible, troublesome people. And they're as suspicious as they are supportive...because the truth is that they've never forgiven their father for the damaging secrets and corrosive lies of his past. So how much does Louis love his dad - to death? Or can this flawed family's bond prove powerful enough to keep a dying man alive?

Let Go My Hand is a darkly comic and deeply moving 21st-century love story between a son, his brothers and their father. Through these vividly realized characters, it asks elemental questions about how we love, how we live, and what really matters in the end. Frequently funny, sometimes profound, always beautifully written, this intimate and life-affirming novel shows the Booker long-listed author of Self Help at his brilliant best and confirms his reputation as one of Britain's most intelligent and powerful writers.

Members Reviews:

A father's dying wish.

The narratorâs father is dying of motor neurone disease and his youngest son Louis is driving him to Dignitas in the old family camper van. Lou is desperately hoping that his two older half-brothers (twins from the fatherâs previous marriage) will join them at some point on their sentimental road trip through France to Switzerland â and beyondâ

Edward Docx is an erudite writer whose earlier novel, The Calligrapher, was a joy to read: funny, clever, poetic and engaging. Here, Iâm afraid Docx works a little too hard at alleviating his story of assisted dying with injections of humour. But his four male voices are just too clever, too similar and too tedious about the purpose of their journey - which is analysed, as it were, to death.

This is, effectively, a talk piece but the sense that real humans are talking to each other is somehow missing. Until, that is, the father speaks towards the end â a powerful soliloquy that describes the passage of time through the decades and which is genuinely touching. I must admit, it brought tears to my eyes.