Hemispheres

When sixteen-year-old Danny's father, Yan, leaves their Teesside home to fight in the Falklands War, he never returns; Danny imagines he is either dead or has abandoned him and his mother for good. So when, thirty years later, Yan reappears, there is much to be explained, and forgiven, if father and son are to reconcile their broken relationship. Yan has spent the lost years half a world away, adrift on a remarkable series of adventures after he deserted the army. But when he discovers he is dying from lung cancer, he returns to his home in the north-east of England to try and repair his damaged relationship with his son. Separated by years and experience, father and son find unexpected solace and harmony together through a shared love of birds and birdwatching. Hemispheres is a gloriously ambitious debut novel about family, destiny, nature and coming home.