PRODIGAL

Raw, provocative and deeply moving — a novel for fans of Edward St Aubyn or Alan Hollinghurst

With darkly polished prose and acute psychological insights, shot through with threads of black humour, PRODIGAL explores the question of death, the nature of trust and what we do to one another in the name of love.

A searing story of the complexities of familial love told across three timelines, PRODIGAL plunges readers into the irregular life of Jeremy: a man in his late 50s trying to scrape together a living in Paris, writing erotica. When his estranged older sister calls to tell him that their father is on his deathbed, Jeremy reluctantly travels back to his family home in Whitstable. Confronted with a world that he was eager to escape, his return marks the start of an emotionally-fraught journey into his — and Rachel's — past.

This reawakening of shared childhood experience leads the siblings on a journey rife with misunderstanding and revelation, duplicity and confession, all culminating in a precarious reconciliation.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in England, Charles Lambert teaches in Rome. He is a prize-winning short fiction writer as well as an acclaimed novelist.