In your opinion, how important is it to your readers’ enjoyment that they have read or reread Hamlet recently?

The Dead Fathers Club: A Novel by Matt Haig, Paperback The Dead Fathers Club: A Novel by Matt Haig, Paperback

My intention was to write a story that connects with people emotionally and hopefully that connection works the same with or without an in-depth knowledge of Hamlet. After all, Shakespeare himself was the king of re-writes, and Hamlet itself echoes earlier vengeance stories.This is a first novel with incredible promise. I received an advanced readers’ copy of this retake on the Hamlet story and have been reading it faster than the bodies piled up in Shakespeare’s famous tragedy. Mike Ashworth’s must-reads for 2007 , EC/DC Q. What sort of research into child psychology did you do in preparation for writing this novel? Have you ever experienced any form of mental illness? Then I asked him if he sees other ghosts and he said There are lots of ghosts inNewark and they take some getting used to because they are all from differentages. And I said It must beweird seeing all the ghosts. Matt Haig is a writer for children and adults who is adept at digging into the human heart.”― Sunday Times (London) Haig’s update of Hamlet is clever, and Philip’s narration nicely captures a studied, Haddonesque naïveté. Thom Geier, Entertainment Weekly

The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig: 9780143112945

PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Dead_Fathers_Club_-_Matt_Haig.pdf, The_Dead_Fathers_Club_-_Matt_Haig.epub Nan kept on saying things and I just drank my Pepsi and looked round at the people. I think mostof them were happy that the Pub was open and they were talking louder than atthe funeral because funerals make voices quiet and beer makes voices loud sonow they were speaking about normal.

In Haig’s imaginative, quirky update of “Hamlet,” 11-year-old Philip Noble is asked by his dad’s ghost to avenge his murder by Uncle Alan; but the boy realizes it’s a bigger job than he anticipated, especially when he is caught up by the usual distractions of childhood—girls, bullies, and his own self-doubt. Kay L. Grismer and Angie Tally for The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, NC Philip observes, “If you speak to yourself people think you are mad but if you write the same things they think you are clever.” Discuss examples from life or literature that bear out this observation on the nature of madness and intelligence. It’s a playful manhandling of Hamlet, and it works: The more you read, the more captivating it becomes. Philip is funny, vulnerable and resolute as he tries to shake off his grief and save his beloved dad from the Terrors and his mom from Uncle Alan. We suspect the Bard would be pleased. Anne Stephensen, The Arizona Republic