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Lessons for a Sunday Father - Claire Calman

Description: ISBN 0552998540 / Author: Claire Calman / Genre: Fiction / This is the story of Scott, who finds his belongings in a bin bag, Gail who ... more

Lessons for a Sunday Father - Claire Calman ... wishes her husband was under guarantee so she could send him back, Nat who finds it's hard to be a grown-up, and Rosie, who just wants her Dad back. Four lives, one story - of love, loss and learning to be a grown-up.

Newest Review: ... of the same family: Scott and Gail and their two children, Nat and Rosie. Each character tells their side of the story whilst ... more

... the family falls apart as a result of Scott having a very brief affair. A big reason for the success of Love Is A Four Letter Word was due to its strong emotional pull. With the subject matter of this novel, there is plenty of scope for Calman to use those same skills to good effect. It almost works. Calman effectively tells the story of nine-year old Rosie, who turns out to be a really sweet character. Calman also does an effective job in telling things from Scott's side and he effectively becomes the lead chara...more

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Lessons for a Sunday Father - Claire Calman: Review (371 words)
by Fiction-Net - written on 18.10.01 (Very useful, 76 readings)
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I read Lessons For A Sunday Father with very high hopes, for two reasons. First, Calman's previous (and debut) novel, Love Is A Four Letter Word, was nothing short of stunning. Second, with this title Calman has adopted the highly effective 'he said/she said' approach used by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees in Come Together and Come Again. This was always going to be an interesting piece of work... Lessons For A Sunday Father is told from the viewpoint of four members of the same family: Scott and Gail and their two children, Nat and Rosie. Each character tells their side of the story whilst the family falls apart as a result of Scott having a very brief ...

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