The Dead Fathers Club
by Matt Haig
Genre: Fiction > Modern Fiction
Large Print Edition
978 1 84632 914 2
LP1592
Published: Jan 2007
Page Extent: 368pp
List Price: £18.95
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Synopsis
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. It all begins when his dad, who has been killed in a road accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral, and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The Dead Fathers Club are ghosts of dads in who gather near the bottle banks outside the Nobles' pub. Philip learns the truth about ghosts: the only people who end up ghosts are murdered.
He has to get revenge for his dad's murder by killing the murderer - his dad's brother Uncle Alan. If he doesn't succeed before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his dad and to save his mum from the greasy clutches of Uncle Alan, Philip arms himself with weapons pilfered from the school chemistry cupboard, and attempts to carry out his father's relentless demands. But, things keep distracting him...
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