Stealing Dad

I was completely absorbed from the beginning. Stealing Dad captures the darkness of a bereaved, divided family and takes it on a sometimes hilarious joy-ride into the light * Mary Portas *
[Sofka Zinovieff] has an enviable gift for story-telling and character creation. I thought Stealing Dad was a wonderful combination of hilariously improbable and believably sad. A romp - but also a reminder of human fallibility and mortality * Virginia Nicholson *
Any novel about a large Bohemian family is fascinating, and Sofka Zinovieff’s Stealing Dad is no exception. A black comedy about bereavement, rivalries, anger and finding peace it shares with her admired Putney an elegance and intelligence that make it a rewarding read * Amanda Craig *
I laughed and cried reading Stealing Dad. A brilliant depiction of a complex sprawling family with a charismatic lovable rogue at its centre. It is both tragic and funny, but ultimately heartwarming, brought alive by such beautiful descriptive writing of characterisation and place. I loved this book and didn’t want it to end * Lily Dunn *
Stealing Dad contributes to a vital and much-needed conversation about grief and funerals. A novel that scrutinises some of our most raw emotions with honesty and humour * Julia Samuel *
A glorious read * Juliet Stevenson *
Moving, funny and unexpectedly joyful, I became immersed in the tangled skeins of this unwieldy family coming to terms with their loss * Esther Freud *
Funny, sad and beautifully written. It will make you appreciate your own family, and wish, perhaps, that you too had an assortment of semi siblings with whom you could take some magic mushrooms, filch a corpse and go on an adventure… A first-class novel starring a dysfunctional family like no other * Telegraph *
Part grief-memoir and part macabre escapade… the writing is fresh [and] sensuous… the author weaves in some valuable ideas [such as] how selfish parenting can pass on ‘destructive impulses’ * Spectator *
Stealing Dad promises to be a rollercoaster of a tragicomedy * A.E. Stallings *
A thrilling and very rewarding read * Irish Times *
Funny, sad and full of beautiful writing * Observer *
This novel is a Whisky Sour. Approach with caution, and delight * Raffaella Barker *

Sofka Zinovieff was born in London, has Russian ancestry and is attached to Greece. She is the acclaimed author of three works of non-fiction: “Eurydice Street”, “Red Princess”, and “The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me” (a New York Times Editors’ Choice 2015). She has written two novels, “The House on Paradise Street” and her latest book, “Putney” - an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a much older man. It was a Best Book of The Year in The Observer, The Spectator and The New Statesman.

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