My Son, My Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next

What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when, in 2003, he returned home to Scotland from a few days’ work in London. The house was silent, empty and locked; his four and six-year-old sons’ pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor. And on the doormat, confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address – in Japan. He has not seen them since. This book goes to the very heart of relations between parents and children, men and women, and between races and nations – to the heart of what it is to be alive.

Reviews of My Son, My Son: How One Generation Hurts the Next

"This book is a howl of pain, beautifully written by a man wounded beyond endurance" Sunday Telegraph "A memoir and a meditation that is provocative, humorous, stimulating and profoundly affecting…accomplished…a great, unsettling book" Glasgow Herald "Magnificent … as with the best art only suffering and loss can create such brilliance'" Scottish Review of Books "A curious first person account" Sunday Business Post "Unsettling but moving true story" Big Issue in the North