A Booker Prize and Saltire Prize finalist, this novel of three generations of Scottish dreamers follows the lives of Hugh Bawn, a socialist reformer, and his grandson, Jamie, who comes to see his grandfather as a mentor as he embarks on his own struggle for social justice in post-war Scotland. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotlands residential development after World War II. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. It is Jamie who tells the story of his family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of political idealism. It is a tale of darkness amidst the search for Utopia. A poignant and very powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is also a clearsighted and beautifully crafted look at public and personal history. Hugh Bawn was a modern hero, a dreamer, a man of the people who revolutionized Scotlands residential development after World War II. Now, as he lies dying in one of his own buildings, his grandson Jamie comes home to watch over him. It is Jamie who tells the story of his family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of political idealism. It is a tale of darkness amidst the search for Utopia. A poignant and very powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is also a clearsighted and beautifully crafted look at public and personal history.
