Book description
Geoffrey Beattie is an extremely successful academic and celebrity
psychologist. He was perhaps a less successful father. His obsession
with his career and his driving passion for running when he was at
home almost destroyed his relationship with his son, but, ironically,
it is running that has brought them back together.
Chasing Lost Times is the emotional story of a father and son
trying to repair a relationship through a shared activity that depends
on sheer physical effort, the kind of physical effort that may once
have been the source of commonality between father and son in all
previous generations but which seems to be absent in the modern world.
Geoffrey Beattie is a professor at the University of Manchester.
Television viewers know him better as the resident psychologist in the
popular reality show Big Brother. His academic publications
have appeared in a wide variety of international journals, including
Nature, and he has also written for a diverse range of
newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The
Times, The Independent and The Observer.
Ben Beattie's ambition is to become an elite runner, a goal that he
juggles with full-time work. If he takes two minutes off his
half-marathon time, his ambition will be fulfilled, but those two
minutes could take a lifetime.
