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The Lies of the Fathers

Three heroes– Three fates– Three dark secrets

A freshwater can containing a diary floats ashore on Barbados. Shedding new light on the disappearance of the climate scientist Carl Christian Scott in the Greenland Sea twenty years earlier, the diary also proves to be a turning point for his son, the young journalist Victor Scott.

Victor is asked to write a book about his three famous forefathers: his father, who disappeared in the Greenland Sea, his grandfather, a writer, winner of the nobel prize and war hero and his great-grandfather, who lived 20 years on a desert island. To gather information, Victor sets out on a journey around the world – a journey which will change his life.

The Lies of the Fathers is a captivating family epic about three men and their young descendant who uncovers their secrets.

First published: Autumn 2010, Aschehoug
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