A moving, power new collection from award-winning author David Park, Like Gods and Angels locates, with pinpoint accuracy, the quiet but deeply charged moments in life that can define a person.
A seventeen-year-old boy visits his estranged mother on Boxing Day in a grey seaside town; a University lecturer falls in with a gang of ageing mobsters while trying to learn how to swim; a cop breaks into his former home to spy on his estranged family; a couple reflect on twenty-five years of marriage under the Northern Lights; and an old man volunteering in a charity shop forms a tender bond with a young single mother.
Bringing together deeply affecting stories exploring masculinity, loneliness, isolation and longing, this is David Park's strongest, most masterful collection yet.
