This Party’s Got To Stopby Rupert Thomson, Granta, $29.99.
This is British novelist Rupert Thomson’s first foray into non-fiction, an absorbing memoir that explores the impact of his father’s death on Rupert and his two younger brothers.
They’re in their 20s, already motherless, and having come together for the funeral, the brothers stay on for months in the empty family home. Tension builds, knives are literally sharpened as they collaborate, argue and split into rival groups, like three lost boys in a bizarre Neverland – and, above it all, is the ghost of their mother, appropriately named Wendy. They end up estranged without anyone knowing why. The highlight of this book is Rupert’s attempt, later in life, to re-connect with his youngest brother and find out what went wrong.
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