Let Go My Hand - Softcover

An outstanding novel – tremendously moving, fiercely intelligent and very, very funny, even when it's breaking your heart Author: Paul Murray, author of Skippy Dies

A truly dazzling writer Author: Hanif Kureishi

There are books that change your life and there are books that seem to be your life, Let Go My Hand manages to be both and more. Full of shining truths, this is a stylish and properly laugh-out-loud funny book that also had me choking back tears in public - a book that breathes pathos and joy into every page, a book that rubs wit and wisdom into the most tender wounds of love. I had to read many passages out loud to those that I care about the most in the world. If art is the holding in balance of the powers of love, sex and death, then this is a truly supreme work of art Author: Ian Kelly, author of Mr Foote's Other Leg

Docx knows that what we want most from a novel are stories into which we can sink our teeth and our hearts Author: Kamila Shamsie Source: Guardian

Smart writers are told that their work is clever; sensitive writers that theirs is poignant. I may have to reconsider my idea, however, having read Edward Docx’s fourth novel, which combines the best of both worlds . . . an incredibly touching story of the tender and indestructible bond that exists between a father and his three sons . . . It’s a curious thing when a book about death can prove so life-affirming. It’s something to be admired Author: John Boyne Source: Irish Times

Bursts into life . . . Docx's mastery of emotional verisimilitude had my eyes filmed with tears as I read the last few pages. I succumbed to the Laskers, to their unabashed seriousness and dirty jokes . . . a serious, big-hearted book Source: Literary Review

Docx has a gift for assessing "the exact shape and weight of other people's inner selves, the architecture of their spirit" and even his most ancillary characters flare into being, vital and insistent Source: The New Yorker

Laugh-out-loud humour in novels about terminal illness is more common than you’d expect, but the necessary blend with genuine pathos has rarely been better handled than in Edward Docx’s wonderfully readable new book . . . Apart from its finely judged tone, the book has a fierce momentum driven by the wavering determination of the three sons to carry things to the conclusion their father so devoutly wishes for Source: Daily Mail

Similarities between Let Go My Hand and Edward Docx's previous novel, Self Help, which was longlisted for the 2007 Man Booker prize . . . good at evoking the foetid atmosphere of resentment and overfamiliarity between these four men . . . consequences of past events are revealed in their combative clash of wits, the bitter humour, the conversations like interrogations . . . confronts a messy, fraught and painful subject and pins it out for our examination . . . there's something deeply cathartic in that Source: Times

Compelling, and full of pathos and interest Source: Sunday Times

A brilliant, darkly hilarious and very moving novel about a dysfunctional family and their final chance to fix things