Product Description

John Wakefield is fighting to remain father to his little girl. Here's 2 Absent Fathers leads the readers through the wreckage of a messy divorce and the inhospitable jungle created by the family courts system and the Child Support Agency, as John fights tooth and nail to secure proper long-term access to his young daughter. The struggle is brought hysterically to life as the absurd manoeuvres that otherwise rational, law-abiding people often resort to in the midst of a divorce. Alternating chapters charting the harrowing progress of the divorce from shopaholic ex-wife Alice with entertaining episodes from John's childhood, youth and courtship, this darkly comic novel is loosely based on Ian Wood's own experiences, including some infamous Fathers 4 Justice stunts. Here's 2 Absent Fathers is for any parent who's been touched by divorce.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #783279 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 312 pages

Customer Reviews

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This self-styled blackly comic novel appears to have been written by one of those losers who can't manage his own affairs and tries to make everyone else share the blame by inexplicably dressing up as Batman and attaching himself to the front of public buildings, and heaven only knows we needed to hear more from that bunch of no-hopers. Other things the author is unable to manage include: winning my sympathy, holding my attention, writing decent prose, and getting me to recommend this tedious and dispiriting book.

An excellent book
Here's 2 Absent fathers is an excellent book that has managed to include so many aspects of the corrupt secret UK family courts and what it causes to so many in it's 300 pages. With a good dose of humour, the author has managed to expose not only what these court's get up too, but likewise the Child Support Agency and what the men in tights of Fathers 4 Justice did too try and end the secret court misery. Anyone caught up in this utter nonsense called Family Law will do well to read this book, even if it cannot help you directly with your case it will reassure you (as I've tried to do in my book, Family Court Hell) that you are not alone when facing the injustices of the secret courts.

Here's 2 Absent Fathers
`Here's 2 Absent Fathers' should appeal to anyone who's life has been touched or indeed totally destroyed by the Family Law business. It outlines how Time not only heals all wounds but also wounds all heels.

`Here's 2 Absent Fathers' outlines the case of John Wakefield and his struggle to maintain contact with his daughter Rose. `Here's 2 Absent Fathers' shows that the things that only happen to other people can happen to anyone. Anyone likely to be disappointed by an absence of car chases & murders should avoid this book. In my opinion it possibly is short of one good murder, but that could just be my bias showing.

`Here's 2 Absent Fathers' is a meeting between Roddy Doyle's `The Woman Who Walked Into Doors' & Nick Hornby's `High Fidelity' wrapped around Eric Goulden's `Dysfunctional Success manual' with some Dickens' `Great Expectations' thrown in. It has deceit, betrayal, men in tights, music, children, animals, domestic violence, debt management and text messaging. So, something for everyone.