John of John by Douglas Stuart
Let me just be another person to recommend this book to you. BUT! As I purchased this in Hatchards’s in London, it has NO book club stickers on it (yay).
I have dog eared this book up somethin awful. The writing is outstanding. And heartbreaking. Reminds me of a cross between The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyle and A River Runs Through It by Norman McLean.
4 months ago
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John of John
Sterling Graves
“An incredible book. Couldn’t put it down. Slow, but in the way a good story should be slow, giving you time to sit with the people and the place. A father and son on a small island in the Outer Hebrides, each trying to make sense of a life that feels both small and enormous. Told from both perspectives, the story gets into family, faith, masculinity, love, and all the things fathers and sons strug”
Ryann Ferguson
“His best yet. Never don’t want to read a book about Scotland. 🏴”
Solange Webster
“This was just included on the longlist for the Booker Prize + I'm not surprised. Now I need to read Stuart's other novels.”
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