Father Figure - A gripping coming-of-age story about longing and London

Gail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother. Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he''d loved new wave music and had people killed - and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata. When Agata starts at Saint Saviour''s, Gail and Ezra''s paths cross, and with an unstoppable momentum, their lives intertwine in ways more dangerous than either could ever predict.

About the author

Born in London, Emma Forrest began her writing career as a teenage columnist on a national newspaper. By thirty, she had published three novels and exited journalism to work in Hollywood as a screenwriter. Her memoir Your Voice In My Head is a classic of the genre. Emma wrote and directed her first feature Untogether, which premiered at the Tribeca Film festival. Her most recent novel, Royals, was the Radio 2 Book Club pick.

Product details

• Authors: Emma Forrest, Forrest Emma
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2025
• EAN: 9781474620598
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-2059-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 224 mm x 36 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; FICTION / General, FICTION / Coming of Age, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Memoirs, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general