The Walk Home

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A story of divided loyalties within an Irish Protestant family, the bitterness that wrenches it apart, and the hard-won understanding necessary for its healing-from the acclaimed author of the Booker-nominated The Dark Room. VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL.

Displaced from Ireland during the Troubles, Stevie's family has been living in Glasgow for decades, but memories of their dark history remain. His mother fled Ireland and her dogmatic father only to find her new home haunted by the same religious divisions. And his father is keen to build a good life for his wife and child, even as the past and the community start to draw him from them. Moving between Stevie's present-day life as a construction worker and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a powerful novel about the risk of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family. Gripping, haunting and, ultimately, hopeful, here is a piercingly evocative tale of a family's struggle to throw off the burden of history.