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Biographical note
Sam Miller was born and brought up in London, but has spent much of his adult life in India. He is a former BBC journalist and is the author of Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity (2009), Blue Guide: India (2012) and A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes (2014). He is also the translator of The Marvellous (But Authentic) Adventures of Captain Corcoran (2016) by Alfred Assollant.A quiet and deeply affecting meditation on friendship and family secrets, <i>Fathers </i>glitters with love and uncertainty. Miller writes beautifully about mystery, memory, and how we choose our paths through life, how we decide who we are.
- Helen Macdonald,
<i>Fathers</i> is something much more surprising than a literary life: both a touching celebration of a parent, and the gentle unraveling of a family secret.
- Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times
I canât remember when I have more enjoyed a memoir, in the reading and in the conversations in my head afterwards with its author. <i>Fathers</i> is a profoundly rich and rewarding experience and will be gobbled up by readers and writers.
- Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times
<i>Fathers</i>⌠is not a misery memoir. Far from it. It is⌠a kind of detective story
- Rachel Cooke, Observer
This book began as an extension of the speech Sam made at his fatherâs funeral â and as a way to cope with his grief. It has become something else in the process: an exploration of love, sex, genetic disposition and what makes us who we are⌠There has been some remarkable dad lit over the last year⌠and Sam Millerâs is a fascinating addition to the genre⌠There may be some who would have preferred the story to stay in-house. And as Sam is quick to acknowledge, others would tell it differently. But his, the sonâs version, is sunny: generous in spirit, exculpatory in tone, grateful rather than self-pitying.
- Blake Morrison, Guardian