{"product_id":"while-there-is-still-time","title":"While There is Still Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe found this book and put it somewhere for him to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a middle-aged father - in his late forties to mid-fifties - and his adult son has drifted into a different orbit to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere has been no fight. There has been no tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut life has accumulated around both of them and the distance between them became the default.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheir conversations stayed on the surface. Their time spent together became staged: dinners, family get-togethers, celebrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe knows something is missing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe just doesn't know what to do about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile There's Still Time\u003c\/em\u003e is the book for this man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe father who knows he is past due doing something about reaching the adult stranger who is called a son to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a son whose own father passed before he could repair his relationship with him - by someone who carries the weight of what was never quite said between him and his father before it was too late - this is the map the author wishes someone had placed in his father's hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt traces the distance drift clearly and without blame, from the inter-generational inheritance of the grandfather's post first and second world war silence through the father's inheritance to the son's quiet adjustment of expectations. It shows exactly what the son is carrying that the father doesn't yet know about. And then, chapter by chapter, it shows what the father must do to write a new script..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt does this, not through grandiose speeches nor idealistic hype, but through something more durable than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will show fathers:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe crucial low-key first move he has to make\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe timed follow-up question\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe courageous phone call for no reason\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow to willingly stay in the conversation to reach a new comfort level\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book has no worksheets, no affirmations, no five-step plans. There is a conversation between the like-minded: direct, warm, honest about the difficulty and the possibility, in equal measure. It's a conversation between a son author who has been on the son's side of this kind of distance between a father and son, and a reader father who still has time to close it with his own son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe window doesn't close. But it does get smaller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third volume of the Ground Zero Series, \u003cem\u003eWhile There's Still Time\u003c\/em\u003e follows \u003cem\u003eFinding Ground Zero\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNever Too Late To Dream\u003c\/em\u003e in their exploration of what it means for middle aged, Gen X men to live with intention, purpose and connection in the second half of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for the father who is ready to stop waiting and who knows that unless he reaches out now, regret will set in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Induna Press","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":66903521329456,"sku":"9781048303407","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/while-there-is-still-time","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}