Akin

<p><b><i>Akin</i> is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of <i>Room</i>.</b><br><br><b>If <i>Room</i> forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, <i>Akin</i> deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly - <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>A retired New York professors life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mothers wartime secrets.<br><br>Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew.

Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.<br><br>This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak hach to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster.

But as Michaels ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their familys past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.<br><br>Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.<br><br><b>Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of <i>Room</i> has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world <i>Woman &amp; Home</i></b></p>