Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and the European Union Prize for Literature 2019. "His mistakes are my inheritance. The rotten blood he gave me is the blood I will pass on." For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has lived with the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo. One August morning, Daniel and his estranged father Francis-a character of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity-set out on a road trip that seems a promise to salvage t