The Prodigal Father

Heriot Walkingshaw has spent a lifetime building something precious: his reputation as an Edinburgh solicitor, his spotless standing in the city's respectable circles. But reputation, as he is about to discover, is a fragile architecture. When scandal erupts into the quiet life of this seemingly solid family man, the careful structures of his world begin to crack in ways no one expected. His son's forbidden romance, his sister's relentless demands, and whispers on Edinburgh trams all conspire to expose the gap between the man others see and the chaos within. Storer Clouston writes with sharp, dry wit about the collision between Victorian respectability and the inconvenient truths that threaten to undo it. This is a novel about what happens when a father realizes his family has become strangers, and that the respectable life he built may have been built on sacrifices he never examined. Sharp, observant, and quietly devastating.