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Small Hours

By: Bobby Palmer
Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
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About this listen

The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg.

If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place, looking through the trees into the garden, here's what you'd see:

A father and son, a fox standing between them.

Jack, home for the first time in years, still determined to be the opposite of his father.

Gerry, who would rather talk to animals than the angry man back under his roof.

Everything that follows is because of the fox, and because Jack's mother is missing. It spans generations of big dreams and lost time, unexpected connections and things falling apart, great wide worlds and the moments that define us.

If you met them in the small hours, you'd begin to piece together their story.

©2024 Bobby Palmer (P)2024 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Fantasy

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A powerful story of losing ourselves and each other - and how the natural world can find us and put us back together again (Joanna Glen)
I devoured this in forty-eight hours, it being about my very favourite reading topic: dysfunctional families and the many ways in which they can both fracture and heal. Its connection to the natural world makes this extra-special and almost poetic. A triumph (Jennie Godfrey)
Lyrical and evocative, Small Hours is a book like no other, a beautiful testament to the importance of family and what it's truly like to be human (Awais Khan)
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I loved the story. It was well written and well read. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I liked the way that animals were tied into the story line. It made the story really come alive. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone.

A story of how a family comes together again

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I enjoyed Bobbys last book more than this although the narrator brought it to life

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It feels like a deeply personal book, and we’ve had dementia in our family twice, but it felt like it was standing still for the whole book. I loved Isaac and the Egg though so will try another BP book, I’m sure. I think I’m just not sensitive enough for this book?

Clearly a very thoughtful piece by a very good writer. But just not for me.

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