The son of a Hull butcher, Neville ' Timber' Wood volunteered in 1939, at the age of eighteen, to join the British Army's Tyne-Tees
...When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news.
Her husband has been missing
...' He's gone...'
When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband
Set in the hills of Northern Ireland in the 1960s & 1970s, A Son Called Gabriel is a deeply felt & often funny coming of age novel that is ultimately unforgettable. Gabriel Harkin, the eldest of four children in a working-class family, struggles through a loving yet often brutal childhood. It's a turbulent time in Ulster &, in the staunchly Catholic community to which Gabriel belongs, the strict code for belief & behaviour is clear. As Gabriel begins to suspect that he is not like other boys, he tries desperately to lock away his feelings, & his fears. But secrets have a a way of being discovered, & Gabriel learns that his might not be the only one in the Harkin family.