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Stealing Dad

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8th May 2025

Price: £20

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781472159731

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What do you do when you’re not allowed to attend your father’s funeral?

This is the question facing Alekos’s far-flung children from many marriages when the successful, if controversial, Greek sculptor dies in London. His last wife and now widow is determined that they stay away, but for the first time, all the sisters and brothers meet up and plan to take matters into their own hands.


Wonderfully written and sharply funny, Stealing Dad tells the unlikely story of a dysfunctional family coming together in tragic yet hilarious ways, from acclaimed author of Putney, Sofka Zinovieff.

Reviews

Julia Samuel
Stealing Dad contributes to a vital and much-needed conversation about grief and funerals. A novel that scrutinises some of our most raw emotions with honesty and humous
Virginia Nicholson
[Sofka Zinovieff] has an enviable gift for story-telling and character creation. I thought Stealing Dad was a wonderful combination of hilariously improbable and believably sad. A romp - but also a reminder of human fallibility and mortality
Mary Portas
I was completely absorbed from the beginning. Stealing Dad captures the darkness of a bereaved, divided family and takes it on a sometimes hilarious joy-ride into the light