Killing Superman

He swings his right arm forward, a brief flick of the wrist so we see the Rolex Oyster watch, and takes up that unmistakable confidence of gait. He moves from the hips, legs forward, arms swinging, head high, and I know that marching that soldier’s march towards me is my soldier father, who I haven’t seen since I was fourteen, and at whose funeral I couldn’t cry because I was so sure he wasn’t dead. Now in his thirties in Brisbane, Scott Goodwin has spent half his life chasing a shadow superman, believing his apparently dead father is alive somewhere. Scott meets journalist Emily Duval who might help him. But Emily has shadows of her own. When Scott sees his father on a beach in the south of France, he must confront the truth, about his father and about Emily.This new novel from Mary-Rose MacColl is a subtle yet gripping story about the ties that bind and the grief of ordinary families.