COOK , DAVID: - Second Best

Faber & Faber 1991 First VG/Good edgewear & tear to dj 218pp 9 x 6 370g ¶ " A Son", these two words absentmindedly added to a shopping list will change the life of a village sub postmaster, who cares for his invalid father, Graham Holt , forever. He needs a son, James Lennards aged 10, needs a father, and he believes he knows which father he needs, - his own, a soldier of fortune languishing in prison.To James, Graham is definitely second best , to Graham, James always seems to be several steps ahead, which of these to is the father and which the son?