Our Fathers - Wait, Rebecca
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"Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community in which the Bairds were well-known and liked. Tommy, the only survivor of the terrible crime, has returned to Skellag many years later. Faced with this reminder of the horrors that took place amongst them, the community must ask themselves again how much responsibility we have to know our neighbors. What drives a man to murder his own family?…mehr

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"Nobody knows why John Baird, a quiet family man, decided one day to pick up a shotgun and murder his wife and children. On the remote Scottish island of Skellag, violent crime is unheard of, and the killings sent shockwaves through this tiny community in which the Bairds were well-known and liked. Tommy, the only survivor of the terrible crime, has returned to Skellag many years later. Faced with this reminder of the horrors that took place amongst them, the community must ask themselves again how much responsibility we have to know our neighbors. What drives a man to murder his own family? And to what extent is Tommy his father's son?"--Provided by publisher.
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Rebecca Wait grew up in the Oxfordshire countryside and graduated from Oxford University with a first in English. Alongside her writing she teaches in a London secondary school. She has written for the New Statesman , Independent and Pool on subjects as diverse as suicide, cults and autism and appeared on Woman's Hour. The author of two previous novels, The View on the Way Down and The Followers, she lives with her boyfriend in south London.