Contact - Jonathan Buckley
Contact is written with such simplicity that you could be mistaken for imagining that a story like this almost writes itself, but there's much more going on beneath the surface than at first appears. On the surface the storyline appears quite straightforward. Dominic Pattison has a successful business in furniture manufacturing, an unexciting but relaxed and easy-going marriage to his wife Aileen, but then one day a young man called Sam turns up at his office showroom claiming he is the son from an affair Pattison had just before he got married. Pattison isn't convinced - the young man has an appearance and a thuggish character that Dominic can't relate to, but Sam also has an engaging personality and persuasive manner that gives Dominic pause for thought, at least until he has time to consider the implications of what it would mean to his life should what the young man says turn out to be true. The longer that Dominic resists the idea however, the more frustrated Sam beco...