SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, From the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan.
Three men, searching for some version of home, their lives moving inexorably towards a reckoning that will draw them all together..
But now that lifeblood is slowing down, and he\'s not sure if God will listen to his pleas for forgiveness.
The ghost of his beloved brother, and the bitter disappointment of his father, have shadowed him all his life.
But it was never enough.
The game was always the lifeblood coursing through John\'s veins: manipulating people for his enjoyment, or his enrichment, or his spite.
And on top of all that, he has a bus to drive; those old folks From the home can\'t wait all day.
His granddad\'s little sniping jokes are getting on his wick.
There\'s the secret his mother will never tell him.
He has the city girl for a bit of fun, but she\'s not Chloe, and Chloe took his heart away when she left him.
Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his small town life in Ireland.
If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea.
If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons.
He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can From the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart.
For Farouk, family is all.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, From the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan
