And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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Blake Morrison

Granta, £7.99, pp 224 ISBN 1 86207 093 8

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Sooner or later we all die. And so do our parents. Blake Morrison has generously offered his insight into the experience of losing his father. This book met with critical acclaim on its publication almost 10 years ago and has inspired similar confessional memoirs. It is a testament to the quality of Morrison's writing that details of everyday family …