Jason Kirk is a thirty-two-year-old teacher who believes he is happily married until he returns home one day to find that his wife has left him, taking their two young children with her.
Suddenly Jason finds the role of father denied him as he is separated from his children and reduced to the role of visitor. The law is weighted against him and his wife produces a series of excuses to withhold contact with Jake, eight, and Leah, three.
Jason, who had wanted to bring up his children on a daily basis, not only has to face the pain of this loss but endures the misery of persecution by the Child Support Agency. He discovers he is not alone, that among friends and colleagues are others enduring the same situation.
Jason's fate is a fact of twenty-first-century living, where, so surveys show, fifty per cent of all men now beginning families will not be living with their children by the time they reach the age of eighteen.
Just as in
The Clematis Tree
, when
Ann Widdecombe
was commended in particular for her portrayal of parents with a profoundly handicapped child, so in
Father Figure
— an enthralling, thought-provoking novel of modern fatherhood — her message is simple: men are human beings too.
Rupert Penry-Jones
played Piers du Pre in
Hilary and Jackie
and Donald Maclean in
Cambridge Spies
(alongside another Orion Audiobooks reader,
Samuel West
). He has appeared in television as diverse as
Spooks, Poirot, Absolutely Fabulous, Cold Comfort Farm
and
Jane Eyre,
and other films include
Charlotte Gray
and
The Four Feathers
.
Author : Joanne Harris
Rula Lenska
Published By : Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
3 hours
Categories : General
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The new best-seller from Joanne Harris, author of CHOCOLAT, read by Rula Lenska. When the widowed Framboise moves back to the village of Les Laveuses, where she grew up... More...
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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
Stanley Tucci
Published By : Harper Collins US
6 hours 30 minutes
Categories : General Comedy
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Breakfast of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. More...
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Author : Gordon Korman
Billy Hammond
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
5 hours
Categories : Over 10s General General
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The blood of a notorious lowlife flowed through my veins. I WAS PRINCE MAGGOT. More...
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Author : Dorothea Benton Frank
Susie Breck
Published By : Brilliance Audio Inc
6 hours
Categories : General
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This colorful contemporary romance effortlessly evokes the lush beauty of the South Carolina Lowcountry while exploring the complexities of family relationships. More...
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Author : Sandra Brown
Victor Slezak
Published By : Simon & Schuster
6 hours
Categories : General Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense Horror & Suspense Detective
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Deadly consequences ensue when an eccentric millionaire, crippled in a tragic accident, hires a fallen football hero (and ex-con) to impregnate his wife. More...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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