Previously published as Dark Father.

SMILE ...

What drives a violent husband and dysfunctional father to pursue his wife and son across a moonlit English landscape?

What compels a troubled man to rebuild his broken family, constructing a fractured reality of hollow promises and false hope?

What forces an old man suffering from a rare mental disorder to reconcile the terror of the past with the daily torment of being locked in a mental hospital where everyone he sees bears the face of his father?

The answers lie in a disturbing journey of suffering and self-discovery that confirms James Cooper's status as one of the most imaginative writers of contemporary horror fiction.

Sometimes love can be a terrible thing. Especially when a man's smile is never quite what it seems ...

SMILE is a bold, breathtakingly original novel that unfolds with the disturbing unpredictability of a nightmare. Intimate and scary as hell, it is simply a quite dazzling achievement ...