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Austin Duffy s uniquely dry, laconic style adds a subversive and compelling charge to this moving and intense story of the relationship between a father and daughter. A terrific novel – William Boyd

When Wolf s recently-estranged wife Miriam dies from cancer, his entire world is turned upside down. Wolf and his daughter, Ruth, travel to New York from London to scatter Miriam s ashes in the Hudson River. During the ten High Holy Days of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur they connect up with Miriam s conservative Jewish family, who are adamantly against Miriam s choice of burial. Battling the antagonism of Miriam s Orthodox family, Wolf is also coming to terms with his own hopes to put right wrongs before it s too late.

A tenderly written story of time, grief and memory, Ten Days delves deep into the complicated love between a father and daughter and the bonds of marriage over older family ties.