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The Dead Fathers Club

by Matt Haig · 2006

A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story. Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his… more

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I don't know why people say sorry when they havent done the thing they are saying sorry for. It is like everyone in the world is a little bit to blame for everything.
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(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.
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Dads are just men who have babies but I know he loved me because I felt it go out of me when he crashed. It was like air or blood or bones or something that made me me and it wasnt there any more and I had only half of it now and I didn't know if that was enough.
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You always have a choice. Life is full of choices
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Time is not like pocket money that you can spend, because time is the person spending the pocket money and the pocket money is you
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... there comes a time when you have to put the dead to rest, Philip. When you have to trust the living instead.
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when you write with a pen it is like writing with a part of yourself like it is another finger.
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if you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.
... killing is not a stone you throw away, it is a boomerang that comes back and gets you on the head.

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A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of the Hamlet story.

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The club, whose members were all murdered, gathers outside the Castle and Falcon, the local pub that Philip’s family owns and lives above. Philip’s father tells him that Uncle Alan killed him and he must avenge his death. When Philip realizes that Uncle Alan has designs on his mom and the family pub, Philip decides that something must be done. But it’s a much bigger job than he anticipated, especially when he is caught up by the usual distractions of childhood—a pretty girl, wayward friends, school bullies, and his own self-doubt. The Dead Fathers Club is a riveting, imaginative, and quirky update of Shakespea

Book details

First published
2006
Author
Matt Haig
Genre
Fiction
Goodreads rating
3.22 (10k ratings)

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