Our Fathers

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Our Fathers is a powerful reclamation of the past from one of Britain’s most accomplished literary novelists. Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero and legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the high-rise tower blocks he helped establish. His grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him, and it is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. It is a tale of dark hearts and modern houses – of three men in search of Utopia.

Reviews of Our Fathers

"A beautiful, elegiac work . . . required reading for everybody." — Ian Rankin, "Evening Standard" (U.K.) "O'Hagan offers a deeply moving meditation on losses, both personal and historical, and on the tide of time through generations." –" Kirkus Reviews" "A timely corrective to the idea that nothing profound can be said about now." — Will Self, "Observer" (U.K.) "The most auspicious debut by a British writer for some time." — "The Independent" (U.K.)