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Thirty-year-old George Davies can’t bring himself to hold his newborn son. After months of accepting his lame excuses and strange behavior, his wife has taken enough. She demands that he visit a therapist, and George, desperate to save lots of his unraveling marriage and redeem himself as a father and husband, reluctantly agrees.
As he delves into his childhood memories, he starts to recall things he hasn’t thought of in two decades. Events, people, and strange situations come rushing back. The odd, rambling letters his father sent home before he died. The jovial mother who started dating too early after his father’s death. A boy who appeared one night when George was lonely, then told him secrets he didn’t wish to know. How no-one believed this new friend was real and that he was responsible for the bad things that were happening.
Terrified by everything that he has forgotten, George struggles to remember what really happened in the months following his father’s death. Were his ominous visions and erratic behavior the product of the grief-stricken child’s overactive imagination (a correctly natural reaction to the trauma of loss, as his mother insisted)? Or were his father’s colleagues, who blamed a darker, more malevolent force, right to look to the supernatural as a way to get rid of George’s suffering? Twenty years later, George still does not know. But when a mysterious murder is revealed, remembering days gone by becomes the only way George can protect himself–and his young family.
A psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History–with shades of The Exorcist–the smart and suspenseful A Good and Happy Child leaves you questioning the things you remember and frightened of the things you’ve forgotten.
