Letters to Our Sons

Fathers from around the world and from all walks of life come together in this honest and moving collection of letters to their sons.

What advice do you wish you'd shared before your son's first day at school? When he missed or scored that goal? Or the day he left home?

When was the last time you hugged him?

And what would you do if you had your time again?

Award-winning actor Stephen Graham and psychology lecturer Orly Klein have invited fathers - doctors, builders, actors, prisoners - to put into words the things they couldn't say out loud to their sons. Letters from dads in the world of sport and entertainment are also interspersed throughout the book. Olympian Tom Daley, Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem, football mainstays Chris Kamara and Jamie Redknapp, artist and musician Goldie and Rivals star Danny Dyer have all contributed, as well as documentary-maker Louis Theroux, comedians John Bishop and Romesh Ranganathan, and actors Ashley Walters and Riz Ahmed.

Full of hope, fear, shame and pride, Letters to Our Sons is a raw and extraordinary outpouring of the sometimes messy, often joyful, and always complex realities of modern fatherhood.

About the Author

Stephen Graham OBE is an Emmy-winning actor, most recently known for his lead role in Adolescence (Netflix), which he co-created, co-wrote and starred in.

Produced by Matriarch Productions, which he runs alongside Hannah Walters, the one-shot limited series became Netflix's second most-watched English-language show worldwide. It earned 14 Emmy nominations and went on to win 8 Emmy Awards, of which Stephen won Best Lead Actor, Best Writing, and Best Limited Series, Anthology or TV Movie. Stephen also recently starred in and exec-produced BAFTA award-winning Boiling Point (BBC) and A Thousand Blows (Disney/Hulu). Other notable credits include This is England, Boardwalk Empire, Help, The Virtues, Time. He can next be seen in Deliver Me From Nowhere, Peaky Blinders (film), and an untitled Apple TV+ project based on the novels by Lars Kepler.