The Long Walk Home - Softcover

North, Will

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620151715 ISBN 13: 9781620151716

Publisher: Booktrope Editions, 2013

Synopsis

When forty-four year-old Fiona Edwards answers the door of her farmhouse bed and breakfast, she discovers a tall, middle-aged man shouldering a hulking backpack. He is unshaven, sweat-soaked ... and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at this moment is that their lives are about to change forever. American Alec Hudson has carried the ashes of his late ex-wife, Gwynne, all the way from his arrival at London’s Heathrow Airport to this valley amid the mountains of North Wales. He is honoring her request that he scatter her remains atop Cadair Idris, a towering mountain they had climbed years before, the mountain behind Fiona’s farm. But the weather is vicious and, as he waits for it to moderate, Alec and Fiona realize they are drawn together by mutual loss and longing. Fiona is married, and her husband, a sheep farmer who has been poisoned by an agricultural chemical and lives like a recluse in a distant part of the farm, has become frighteningly unstable. When Alec finally summits and scatters Gwynne’s ashes, he is caught in a blinding hailstorm. As he searches for the route down, he comes upon the body of a man he recognizes from a photo at the farm: Fiona’s husband, David, who is close to death. Will North’s debut novel is a story about good people struggling with the agonizing complexities of fidelity: to a spouse, a memory, a moral code, and finally to a passion neither thought would ever reappear in their lives. By turns lyrical and gripping, set amid a landscape of breathtaking beauty and unpredictable danger, this is a story you will not soon forget.

About this title

Review:

"[A] lyrical first novel about love and loss . . . If Nicholas Sparks set a novel in North Wales, it would read a lot like this." — Publisher's Weekly

"A brilliantly realized romance..."— The Strand Book Store, NYC

"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

"Love that comes along too late—and thus is doomed by the prior commitments of an honorable life—is dangerous territory. 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

About the Author:

Will North is the fiction pseudonym for an award-winning American nonfiction author. His latest novels include The Long Walk Home, Water, Stone, Heart, and the forthcoming Seasons' End. He lives with his wife and dog on an island in Puget Sound, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Booktrope Editions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1620151715
• ISBN 13: 9781620151716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272