What do you do when your wife abducts your children? This was the question facing Douglas Galbraith when in 2003 he returned home to Scotland from a few days work in London. The house was silent empty & locked; his four & six-year-old sons pyjamas lay on the bedroom floor. & on the doormat confirmation from the Post Office of a forwarding address
- in Japan. He has not seen them since. But My Son My Son" is infinitely more than a personal tale of sudden loss & one mans attempts to find his sons. Writing with astonishing range & insight Galbraith tackles the deepest questions about who we are & how we treat each other. Here is an intensely provocative journey through complex & controversial territory: child murder tsunami international conventions hatred & cultures at war. " My Son My Son" is a searing memoir & a call to arms which will provoke passionate debate. It has a haunting eloquence & against the odds a grim sense of humour. It goes to the very heart of relations between parents & children men & women & between races
- to the heart of what it is to be alive."