Dear Michael, Love Dad

Letters, laughter and all the things we leave unsaid.

Iain Maitland

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Hodder & Stoughton
26 July 2016

Diaries, letters & journals; Memoirs; Men's health; Coping with eating disorders

'wonderful, moving, humorous ... extremely poignant' Charlie Mortimer, Dear Lupin

'I've never told my son Michael I love him. Nor do I ever recall hugging him.

Instead, I wrote this book. It's one long love letter to him.'

Michael Maitland left home for university in 2007. During that time his father, Iain, wrote to him - a bounty of correspondence; letters, emails, notes. Some loving and tender, others angry and caustic and finally, warm and caring as he grew to realise the extent of his son's ill-health, shortly before Michael was hospitalised suffering from depression and anorexia.

Dear Michael, Love Dad is the story of a family almost torn apart by love and grief, told through Iain's letters and personal commentary on day-to-day life. It will make you smile and laugh and move you, perhaps even to tears. But, most of all, it will give you hope. This is an uplifting account of the unbreakable bond between a father and son and their family.

By: Iain Maitland
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 404g
ISBN: 9781473638174
ISBN 10: 1473638178
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 26 July 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Iain Maitland has been a professional writer since 1987. He has written over 50 books, mainly on business, and been published as far away as Russia, India, Japan, USA and Australia. He has also written for the Sunday Times, Which? and the Financial Times amongst many others.