Tom Lamont is an award-winning journalist and one of the founding writers for the Guardian’s Long Reads.
He is the interviewer of choice for Adele and Harry Styles, having written in depth about both of these musicians since they first emerged to fame in the 2010s.
Lamont's debut novel is Going Home: A Novel of Boys, Mistakes, and Second Chances.
At the Guardian the writer tagged five favorite books about fatherhood. One title on the list:
Home by Marilynne RobinsonRead about the other entries on the list.
The second book in Robinson’s Ames-Boughton sequence, Home makes a close study of a father, Robert Boughton, who is nearing the end of his life. His children have grown up and moved away from the family home in Iowa – all except one, Robert’s youngest daughter, Glory, who cares for him. So enormous is the sacrifice that Glory has made, Robert can hardly see it. Instead he obsesses over his most wayward and least dutiful child, Jack. A quiet masterpiece of fatherly complacency.
Home is among six books recommended by Colm Tóibín, Nick Lake's top ten liars in fiction, Richard Zimler's five best books featuring pariahs, and Diana Quick's six best books.
--Marshal Zeringue