Book description
When sixteen-year-old Danny's father, Yan, leaves their Teesside
home to fight in the Falklands War, he never returns and Danny
imagines he is either dead or has abandoned him and his mother for
good. So when, thirty years later, Yan reappears, there is much to be
explained, and forgiven, if father and son are to reconcile their
broken relationship. Yan has spent the lost years half a world away,
adrift on a remarkable chain of adventures set in motion when he
deserted from the army. But when he discovers he is dying from lung
cancer, he returns to his homeland in the north-east of England to
reconcile his damaged relationship with his son. Separated by years
and experience, father and son find unexpected solace and harmony
together through their shared love of birds and birdwatching.
Hemispheres is a gloriously ambitious debut novel about family,
destiny, nature and coming home.
