A mop of black hair, wrinkled skin, a blueish-grey complexion and pretty, open eyes that dart around the room. You could call her scary and weird-looking I suppose but I quite like her. Sam Delaney is happy: he is a new dad. He plans to be a caring, wise and reliable father. Except he worries he might be none of those things. He worries that he might be an idiot. His nieces and nephews see him as a lovable buffoon. He is a clumsy oaf and sporadic binge-drinker who doesn t have a proper job and cites Teen Wolf s dad as his biggest role model. Is he really fit for this new position of responsibility? There s only one way he ll be able to find out. Follow Sam in his first year of fatherhood as he tries to figure out what a good dad should be, and, even more importantly, what sort of dad he should be.

Author Biography

Sam Delaney is an award-winning writer and broadcaster whose columns and features appear regularly in the Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph. He has also written for the Independent, the Scotsman, GQ, Arena, Cosmopolitan, Company, Q and the NME and recently contributed to Hang the DJ: The Faber Book of Alternative Music Lists. He is a regular presenter on BBC Radio Five Live and has written and presented TV documentaries for the BBC, Channel Four, and Channel Five. He is the author of Get Smashed: The Men Who Made The Ads That Changed Our Lives, described by the Daily Telegraph as fascinating and often hilarious. In a former life he was a teaboy for Gordon Brown.