The Dead Fathers Club

The story of Hamlet is not usually thought of as one meant for laughter.

But Matt Haig'’s able retelling of the tale in The Dead Fathers Club will make you laugh, though it might also evoke a tear.

Eleven- year-old Philip Noble is at his father’s funeral when who should appear but his father’s ghost, who wastes no time in telling Philip that his Uncle Alan, an auto mechanic, tampered with his car, causing the accident that killed him.