Going Home

One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024

Tom Lamont, Jot Davies

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Sceptre
11 June 2024

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction: special features

'A spirit-lifting debut'

DAVID MITCHELL

'I will never forget these characters: so pained and funny, so brilliantly drawn, wrestled with and forgiven'

HELEN GARNER

'Meltingly warm'

OBSERVER

Local boy Teo Erskine is back in the north London suburb of his youth, visiting his father - stubborn, selfish, complicated Vic. Things have changed for Teo: he's got a steady job, a brand-new car and a London flat all concrete and glass, with a sliver of a river view.

Except, underneath the surface, not much has changed at all. He's still the boy seeking his father's approval; the young man playing late-night poker with his best friend, unreliable, infuriating Ben Mossam; the one still desperately in love with the enigmatic Lia Woods.

Lia's life, on the other hand, has been transformed: now a single mum to two-year-old Joel, she doesn't have time for anyone - not even herself.

When the unthinkable happens, Joel finds himself at the centre of an odd constellation of men - Teo, Vic, Ben - none of whom is fully equipped to look after him, but whose strange, tentative attempts at love might just be enough to offer him a new place to call home.

By: Tom Lamont
Read by: Jot Davies
Imprint: Sceptre
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 390g
ISBN: 9781399727501
ISBN 10: 1399727508
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist. In 2015, he became one of the founding writers on the Guardian's Long Read desk and since 2017 he has been a regular correspondent for American GQ. He lives in north London with his wife and two children. Going Home is his first novel.