Letters to Our Sons

From the Emmy, Critics Choice and Golden Globe winning co-creator and star of Netflix’s acclaimed Adolescence comes an era-defining book on fathers, sons, and the meaning of manhood. Young men are in crisis. Many feel lost, hopeless, angry, and miserable. Parents are desperate to find ways to counter the appeal of toxic online influencers—to guide young men into a happy, loving, and successful adulthood. But how do you reject negative stereotypes about masculinity? How do you show strength, courage, and ambition without being aggressive or dominant? How do you maintain self-awareness and accountability as you journey from boy to man? How do you create healthy relationships? Letters to Our Sons is a collection of honest and powerful letters written by fathers to their sons about what it means to be a man. Fathers from all walks of life draw from their own experiences and perspectives as they explain to their sons the true value of healthy masculinity and share advice, anecdotes, regrets, and joys. Embracing emotional expression, vulnerability, and connection, these letters help reclaim the positive qualities of manhood for the next generation.

Stephen Graham OBE is an Emmy-winning actor, most recently known for his lead role in Adolescence, which he cocreated, cowrote, and starred in. It earned 14 Emmy nominations and went on to win 8 Emmy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Writing, and Best Limited Series, Anthology, or TV Movie. For his role in Adolescence, Stephen won three Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a Golden Globe for Best Lead Actor. Stephen also recently starred in and exec-produced BAFTA award-winning Boiling Point and A Thousand Blows. Other notable credits include This is England, Boardwalk Empire, Help, The Virtues, and Time. He can next be seen in Deliver Me from Nowhere, Peaky Blinders (film), and an untitled Apple TV+ project based on novels by Lars Kepler. Orly Klein is a psychology lecturer and researcher, with over two decades of experience at the University of Brighton and Brighton Met. She began her career working with unhoused people in central London, which shaped her interest in marginalization and community organizations. She has published widely on reality TV, makeover culture, families with disabilities, and hunger trauma. Most recently, she spent two years conducting participant research with Room to Rant, a ground-breaking workshop that uses rap as a therapeutic tool for young men ages 16 to 25.