Bloody Awful in Different Ways Historical romance Mick Herron now introduces Tom

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Bloody Awful in Different Ways Historical romance Mick Herron now introduces TomChristmas, 1983. In the aftermath of yet another furious argument, seven year old Andrev's mother lets him in on a secret: his father is, in fact, not his father. And so begins a new kind of childhood, in which fathers come and go, arriving in red Volvos and sweeping his mother off her feet. Fathers can be magicians or murderers, artists or canoe enthusiasts, and, like growing pains, or the weather, they appear uninvited and leave without warning.