Ebook {Epub PDF} The Walk Home by Rachel Seiffert

Rachel Seiffert is one of Virago’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists. Her first book, The Dark Room, () was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The resolutely quiet and somber third novel from Seiffert, who came to prominence in literary Britain in with her first novel, the Booker-shortlisted The Dark Room, takes place in Glasgow and moves back and forth between two time frames: "Now, or thereabouts" and the early s.. The central figure in the present-tense sections is Stevie, a native Glaswegian who has returned from self. Moving between Stevie’s life as a construction worker in present-day Glasgow and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a heartbreakingly powerful novel about the risks of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family. Gripping, haunting and, ultimately, hopeful, here is a piercingly honest story about the journey home—and the people there waiting for you/5(50).

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follow me at www.doorway.ru Rachel Seiffert's 3rd novel The Walk Home is a story of love and hope amidst the unreasonable religious and political conflict in one of the most deprived and roughest neighbourhoods in Scotland. The book centres around Stevie a young boy who left his family and their struggles behind like others in his family have done before. Rachel Seiffert’s first novel, The Dark Room, was short-listed for the Booker Prize, won the Los. Rachel Seiffert's The Walk Home deals with similar ground-level issues, but from a.