The Dead Fathers Club

After his father dies suddenly, eleven-year-old Philip Noble is initiated into the Dead Fathers Club — a ghostly fellowship of murdered men bound by a code eerily close to Hamlet's. His father's ghost reveals that Philip's uncle, now courting Philip's mother and running the family pub, is actually his murderer, and demands that Philip take revenge before his father's spirit fades from existence entirely.

Matt Haig reimagines Hamlet through an unreliable child narrator, balancing genuine grief and dark humor as Philip is pushed toward violence he's far too young to carry out.