The cut that wouldn't heal : finding my father

Leith, William2023

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Ten seconds before my father's death, I have a premonition - that the breath he is taking will be his last. It was only a graze caused by a dishwasher door, but the cut would not heal and infection took hold. 50 days later, William Leith is standing by his father's bedside, watching him disappear. William is no stranger to his father disappearing; his childhood was marked by his father's absences, and as a consequence their relationship has always been a troubled one. Now, as his father is about to leave him for the last time, William reflects on the twists and turns of their shared history. Compelling, incisive, and told with searing honesty, 'The Cut that Wouldn't Heal' is about family and grief, and the pain of abandonment. It is about the way we let our loved ones down and the things we cannot say.