Letters of Note Fathers, Shaun Usher
Letters of Note Fathers, Shaun Usher
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Letters of Note: Fathers

Author: Shaun Usher

Narrator: Louise Brealey, Simon Callow, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Fry, Ferdinand Kingsley, Toby Jones, Greg Lockett, Natascha McElhone, Chris Nayak, Juliet Stevenson, Mark Strong, Shaun Usher

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/11/2021


Synopsis

A fascinating new volume of messages about fatherhood, from the author of the bestselling Letters of Note collections.

In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.
Includes letters by:
Anne Frank, W.E.B. Du Bois,
Jawaharlal Nehru, Groucho Marx,
Che Guevara, Ted Hughes
Katherine Mansfield, Fergal Keane,
Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Bernstein
& many more

About The Author

SHAUN USHER is the creator of the enormously popular blogs lettersofnote.com and listsofnote.com and the compiler of the bestselling Letters of Note collections. He spends much of his time hunting for letters and making lists of things to share. He lives in Manchester, England, with his family.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nate

Hard to say what I really thought since they are all so different and this is a compilation. I enjoyed the selection and it was heartening to read that so many have my own feelings, and also selfishly, I was proud I have yet to fail where others had.......more

Goodreads review by Claire

I enjoyed these much more than the sex letters of note. Some really beautiful ones, poignant ones and funny ones. Loved it......more

Goodreads review by Mim

What a privilege to have an insight into relationships between fathers and their children. The book is a collection of letters that widely span time and culture from Ancient Greece to 2016. Some a funny, some significant, some poignant. A few of my favourite moments: William Wordsworth to Robert Sout......more