Our fathers

Shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. As Hugh Bawn, modern Scottish hero, legendary social reformer, lies dying in one of the tower blocks he helped to create, his grandson Jamie comes to watch home to watch over him. It is Jamie who tells the story of their family, of three generations of pride and delusion, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. A poignant and powerful reclamation of the past, Our Fathers is a beautifully crafted revelation of public and personal history.