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Dad Had a Bad Day

Ashton Politanoff

A stay-at-home dad rediscovers his old tennis racquet and spirals into an increasingly unhinged obsession with the sport. A “darkly comic” novel about fatherhood and male friendship from the author of You’ll Like It Here.

Daunt Originals, £9.99, 2 July 2026, 9781917092883

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