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Approval is a powerful meditation on judgment, the adoption process, and fatherhood, told from a perspective rarely explored in fiction: a man's response to a couple's infertility. ApprovalFrom family background and early experiences to adult relationships, he is forced to revisit uncomfortable sometimes painful episodes, in the hope of meeting the authority's requirements. Confronting a lonely, difficult and uncertain path to family life, and raising questions about how much intervention and judgement is necessary for the state to ascertain fitness to parent, Approval ultimately invites the reader to decide.

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"“John Rutter's Approval is many things at once. A powerful meditation on judgement. A transfixing fable of a Kafka-esque application process. A complex tragedy about fatherhood. But it's also a simple, affecting and beautifully wrought story of one couple's journey towards what they most desire – a child – and the cost of reaching out for one. A hugely promising debut.” -- Rodge Glass ""An authentic voice … the issues it raises are very real and have contemporary resonance."" -- Lancashire Evening Post"

John Rutter's Approval is many things at once. A powerful meditation on judgement. A transfixing fable of a Kafka-esque application process. A complex tragedy about fatherhood. But it's also a simple, affecting and beautifully wrought story of one couple's journey towards what they most desire - a child - and the cost of reaching out for one. A hugely promising debut. -- Rodge Glass An authentic voice ... the issues it raises are very real and have contemporary resonance. -- Lancashire Evening Post

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John D Rutter is a writer of literary and short fiction and an academic who teaches, researches, edits and writes primarily on the short story - the subject of his PhD from Edge Hill University. His stories and articles have been published in a variety of anthologies and journals, including in7 Stories by Edge Hill University for CheltenhamLiterature Festival.Approval is his debut novel.

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