It's what he would've wanted - Sean Hughes

The Hicksons are a quintessentially comfortable Blairite middle-class family with a house on the edge of the New Forest in Hampshire. On Boxing Day, the two sons arrive: Shea and Orwell (after Che Guevara and George, their father being a bit of a radical in his youth). Shea retires to his father's study to make a phone call and discovers his father hanging from the light-fitting. So begins a journey of discovery by Shea to find out why his father - a minor celebrity BBC TV weatherman - killed himself. It's a journey full of shocking revelations and savage undercurrents beneath the thin veneer of social repectability. Brutally funny, highly charged and compulsively readable this is Sean Hughes at the height of his considerable narrative powers.