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Peter Prince obituary

Media | The Guardian · Nigel Hinton · last updated

Author and screenwriter best known for the novel The Good Father, adapted as a film starring Anthony Hopkins

The writer Peter Prince, who has died aged 84, won the Somerset Maugham award for his first novel, Play Things (1972), while his best-known fiction, The Good Father (1983), was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins.

The “good father” in this story is a man whose support for women’s liberation is reversed when his wife wins custody of their son. Bitter and enraged, and against all his earlier principles, he encourages another man in a similar position (Jim Broadbent in the 1985 movie) to take legal action, with disastrous consequences.

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