The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig is a modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, presented as a darkly comedic and poignant coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old boy named Philip who is haunted by the ghost of his recently deceased father, urging him to seek revenge.
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Book Blurb
Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his mother is succumbing to the greasy charms of her dead husband’s brother, Uncle Alan. The remaining certainties of Philip’s life crumble away when his father’s ghost appears in the pub and declares Uncle Alan murdered him.
Arming himself with weapons from the school chemistry cupboard, Philip vows to carry out the ghost’s relentless demands for revenge. But can the words of a ghost be trusted any more than the lies of the living?
About the Author
Matt Haig is an author and journalist who has sold more than a million books in the UK. He’s passionate about mental health and his books often reflect that.
Matt Haig has written several nonfiction books, as well as fiction novels aimed at both children and adults. His novel, The Midnight Library was awarded the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fiction.
He has also won the Blue Peter Book Award, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal for his stories for children and young adults.
What to read next
If you enjoyed this novel, I would also recommend reading more Matt Haig books such as The Midnight Library and The Life Impossible. You may also be interested in reading one of Matt Haig’s non-fiction books such as The Comfort Book and Notes on a Nervous Planet.
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