A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better

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No one is going to survive this story, and for a while I was sure Dan would be one of those who would perish at his father’s hands. Wood’s third novel is a gripping work, his chilling creation Francis Hardesty leaving an indelible mark. Alistair Mabbott, The Herald It’s all a teaser for the novel’s big curveball, when someone rings Willa saying an ex-girlfriend of her son, Sean, has been shot in Baltimore and needs help looking after her young daughter.

Susan Sarandon's son Miles Robbins pleads with fans to stop using video of his mom 'with her honkers out'... after she was dropped by Hollywood agent A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better' is long name for a book by today's standards since so many are constructed of mononyms that attempt to burst out, to grab the attention of that person in the bookstore or in the library. Read me now!N2 - For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has borne the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo, which leaves him no peace. One August morning in 1995, the young Daniel and his estranged father Francis – a character of ‘two weathers’, of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity – set out on a road trip to the North that seems to represent a chance to salvage their relationship. But with every passing mile, the layers of Fran’s mendacity and desperation are exposed, pushing him to acts of violence that will define the rest of his son’s life.

PICTURED: Danny Cipriani puts on a cosy display with Strictly's JowitaPrzystal as they hug at their first training session - days after announcing his split from wife VictoriaVeteran actress Heather Mitchell, 65, opens up about her health battle as she launches new Stan Christmas film Doctor Who 60th Anniversary: Viewers left 'sobbing' after Wilf's fate is revealed after actor Bernard Cribbins died aged 93 Right from the very first line, the reader is on guard. Before we read another word, we know this will be the story of a toxic—perhaps dangerous—father and the disillusionment of a young son. We know something will happen and it won’t be pretty. With his third novel, Wood’s talent has burgeoned spectacularly. The book is a tremendous achievement, an unputdownable domestic thriller that is also subtle and moving … travelling well beyond his earlier fiction, Wood has produced a tour de force that marks his creative arrival’ David Grylls, SUNDAY TIMES Fans of Louis de Bernieres will know what to expect from this globe-trotting follow-up to 2015’s The Dust That Falls From Dreams, set in the years between World Wars I and II.