{"product_id":"9781068176692-wrong-son-the","title":"The Wrong Son","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA memoir\u003cbr\u003eThe Wrong Son is a memoir of emotional precision - a searching, unsparing account of what it means to come into being in the absence of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Wrong Son is a memoir of emotional precision - a searching, unsparingaccount of what it means to come into being in the absence of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1963, a young husband loses his pregnant wife and eighteen-month-old sonin a car accident. Six months later, he meets a woman who abandons her ownhusband and child for him - a man who seems to her everything she has everwanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin two years, a boy is born into this family of grief and guilt, into a housealready filled with ghosts, where neither parent can see him clearly throughwhat each has lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis mother demands perfection. His father, meanwhile, decides early on thatthis child exists only because the first one died - and cannot forgive him for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoulded by his mother, rejected by his father, he is given no space in which tobecome himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his life, no matter how much he tries to invent himself, he is drivenby the fear that nothing real exists underneath. Fifty years on, after his parents'deaths, that fear begins to unmoor him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe turns to the work of psychoanalysts who were pioneers of early childhoodpsychology around the time he was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the insights of D.W. Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, The Wrong Sontraces a life shaped not only by loss and violence, but by psychic damage thatmay never fully be shaken off.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith forensic clarity and unexpected humour, The Wrong Son is a quietlydevastating work: deeply human, psychologically attuned, and unafraid to staywith what cannot be resolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57924908515702,"sku":"9781068176692","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41435437_a8bda534-25ce-4a8c-90ca-8da8d35e8582.jpg?v=1779935016","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781068176692-wrong-son-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}