A Lie About My FatherJohn Burnside recalls the failed relationship with his father, in the first of his trilogy of exquisite memoirs with a new introduction by Megan Nolan. A Lie About My Father is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged world of childhood and the constants of his father's world men defined by the drink they could take and the pain they could stand, men shaped by their guilt and machismo. 'A master of language' Hilary Mantel He had his final