Daddy

Hardcover – Used

Fiction

Oliver Watson’s world suddenly dissolves aroundhim when Sarah his wife of eighteen years, returnsto Harvard to get her master’s degree. Oliver isleft on his own, with three children and a freedomhe never wanted and doesn’t completely understand.His family’s needs and demands suddenly consumehis life.

When Oliver’s mother isdiagnosed as having Alzheimer’s disease and dies soonthereafter, Oliver’s father’s life is changed aswell. Braver than his son with less of a futurebefore him, George Watson, at seventy-two, quicklyembraces new relationships and, eventually, a newlife. The sudden changes come as a shock to bothfather and son.

Ben, Oliver’s oldestson, rejects his father and reaches outward, underthe illusion that he is grown-up and can make iton his own. Melissa, the middle child, blamesOliver for her mother’s desertion. And Sam, the”baby,” is too shaken to deal with it at all.Now the only parent, Daddy mustsomehow cope this, his troubled family andexplore a world of new responsibilities, new women, andnew experiences. Each of the three men must starta new life: Oliver in New York and then in LosAngeles with his children, once he faces thebiggest change in his life; his widowed father with thewoman next door; and seventeen-year-old Ben withhis girlfriend and baby. Nothing is as it wasbefore… nothing is as they once thought it wouldbe. But in the end, different is better…different is more… for each of them–and especiallyfor Daddy.