Una family affair

It is a very beautiful novel that big pad 500p, and perhaps had much to do the "Grand Tour", a tour of Europe, with its great museums.
Indeed, an English couple married for 25 years and "bell" a little, gives the idea to the husband and father of a teenager 17 years to jointly undertake a cultural journey history of family ties. In the middle of the trip the son goes to live his vacation as he wants, the mother off again in England, and the father with some adventures through Europe in search of his son. That's basically the thread of the novel.
Of course, this is an excuse to study marital relationships, parents and children in particular father-son relationship; also to study the teenager who grumbles but is also looking at all perspectives.
What surprises some is the conclusion that brings D.Nicholls, The whole book is summarized at the end of book about a dozen pages and lapidary conclusion.
It is a beautiful translation that captures the author's writing finesse, and after reading, I even surprised me a little that such a young author may as well describe the feelings of a couple who wears , so "true", the teenager, it is perhaps easier .L'humour is present and discreet