Seven years before the Great War, ten-year-old Geoffrey Madeley was travelling to Liverpool with his family to take the ship to Canada to start a new life. But after their overnight stop on his uncle's farm, Geoffrey woke up to find that his mother, father and siblings had gone. In a heartbreaking betrayal, he'd been left behind. This child was Richard Madeley's grandfather. Shock waves would reverberate through the generations of Madeley boys, each struggling to cope with a tangled emotional inheritance. Starved of paternal affection, Christopher, Geoffrey's son, swore that for his son things would be different. But were they? And what kind of father did Richard become? FATHERS AND SONS is a journey into fatherhood in the most rapidly changing centuries in history.