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Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.

If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly – Guardian

A retired New York professor s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother s wartime secrets.