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As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day

''I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About A Son - a book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed. It is an unflinching examination of grief, a painstaking deconstruction of injustice and a dispatch from the frontiers of the human heart'' Elizabeth Day


On the evening of Halloween in 2015, Morgan Hehir was walking with friends close to Nuneaton town centre when they were viciously attacked by a group of strangers. Morgan was stabbed, and died hours later in hospital. He was twenty years old and loved making music with his band, going to the football with his mates, having a laugh; a talented graffiti artist who dreamed of moving away and building a life for himself by the sea.

From the moment he heard the news, Morgan''s father Colin Hehir began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record not only of the immediate after

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      Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/28/2022
      ISBN13: 9781474620567, 978-1474620567
      ISBN10: 1474620566

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day

      ''I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About A Son - a book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed. It is an unflinching examination of grief, a painstaking deconstruction of injustice and a dispatch from the frontiers of the human heart'' Elizabeth Day


      On the evening of Halloween in 2015, Morgan Hehir was walking with friends close to Nuneaton town centre when they were viciously attacked by a group of strangers. Morgan was stabbed, and died hours later in hospital. He was twenty years old and loved making music with his band, going to the football with his mates, having a laugh; a talented graffiti artist who dreamed of moving away and building a life for himself by the sea.

      From the moment he heard the news, Morgan''s father Colin Hehir began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record not only of the immediate after

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