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The Cut That Wouldn't Heal

By: William Leith
Narrated by: William Leith
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Publisher's summary

'Deeply moving ... A triumph' Justin Webb 'What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising' Craig Brown, The Mail on Sunday Ten seconds before my father’s death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking will be his last. William Leith’s childhood was marked by his father’s absences and as a consequence their relationship has always been a troubled one. Now, as his father lies dying, William reflects on the connections and ruptures that have marked their shared history. Can he ever really understand his father? Is there an explanation for the physical distance and emotional chasm that his father has maintained between them? And what was he running away from? Darkly comical and told with searing honesty, The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a moving memoir about the pain of abandonment, grief and regret.
©2022 William Leith (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critic reviews

The Cut That Wouldn’t Heal should be depressing, but it is in fact weirdly exhilarating, largely because the author tracks his own feelings, however untoward, with a darkly comical precision … What might, in other hands, have been simply macabre becomes peculiarly mesmerising. (Craig Brown)

Honest without oversharing, William Leith is such a perfect writer … The Cut that Wouldn’t Heal is a triumph and deeply moving. Wonderful. (Justin Webb)
A reckoning with the past by a writer whose past offers plenty to reckon with … Pacily written … satisfyingly structured (Norma Clarke)
An intensely readable study of love and regret. (Ian Jack)
As mysterious and unsettling as a Cold War thriller – the search for self amidst the puzzle of a brilliant absentee father. (Ed Needham)

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