The Long Walk Home
By Will North
(Broadway, Paperback, 9780307383037, 320pp.)
Publication Date: May 13, 2008
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Categories: General
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The miracle of love after loss and longing
The Long Walk Home is a story about grief and hope, about love and loss, and about two people struggling with the agonizing complexities of fidelity–to a spouse, to a moral code, to each other, and to a passion neither thought would ever appear again. By turns lyrical and gripping, set amid a landscape of breathtaking beauty and unpredictable danger, this is a story you will not soon forget.
Will North is the award-winning ghostwriter of a half-dozen nonfiction books. He divides his time between Seattle and Great Britain. This is his first novel. Visit his website at www.WillNorthOnline.com.
"Love that comes along too late—and thus is doomed by the prior commitments of an honorable life—is dangerous territory, veering close to the precipice of bathos. Will North's debut novel The Long Walk Home stays the course; and the results are genuine, tender and affecting.”
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Still Summer
"The Long Walk Home movingly conveys the life-changing effects of love between two middle-aged people with a lot of unshared history."
— Seattle Times
"North's bittersweet, romantic novel has invited some early comparisons with the bestselling work of Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller."
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"How we perceive love and acknowledge its obligations is at the core of this first novel by ghostwriter North. . .If visions of Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep come to mind, which they did briefly for this reviewer, the similarity to Robert Waller's The Bridges of Madison County ends there. Fi and Alec do share an immediate connection, but their witty exchanges and the fascinating descriptions of climbing, cooking (yes, Alec can do it in the kitchen), and lambing are absorbing from the very first. Alec has experienced loss and doesn't want any more of it; Fi accepts that her dreams might have to remain just that. . .a joy to read."
— Library Journal
"[A] lyrical first novel about love and loss. . . North offers vivid descriptions of the Welsh countryside, capturing its local dialect, flora and fauna, and wild weather. . .if Nicholas Sparks set a novel in North Wales, it would read a lot like this!"
— Publishers Weekly
"A brilliantly realized romance..."
— The Strand Book Store, NYC
"The Long Walk Home features some astute observations about the nature of the human condition, where fear of chaos, the collapse of order, and the triumph of confusion and tragedy can sometimes threaten to overtake us. Conversely, this enormously heartrending novel also tells us much about the unalterable, inexplicable power of love." — Curled Up with a Good Book
“A story crafted with a charming locale, sensitive insights, and engaging action.”
– Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
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