# The Boys Are Back

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- Authors: [Simon Carr](https://www.bookquiver.com/simon-carr)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2010-01-07

## Description

When Simon Carr's wife, Susie, tragically loses her battle with cancer, Simon is left to raise his five-year-old son, Alexander, on his own. Soon after, his eleven-year-old son from a previous marriage, Hugo, comes to live with them too. All too quickly, plumped-up cushions, crisp beds and a drifting scent of rosemary from the kitchen are replaced with a floor piled high with video-games, Lego® and comics. While visiting mothers deem his parenting 'semi-feral', Simon dryly retorts that his methods are simply 'free-range'. In this new all-male partnership, Simon faces the challenges of parenthood unaided, as father and sons alike learn to become a family again. Carr's emotionally honest, compellingly anarchic and sharply comic story of a single parent's struggle is at once heartbreaking and wonderfully life-affirming.

## Editions

### The Boys Are Back

- Publisher: arrow
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-738-9
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2010-01-07
- Language: en_GB