The Long Walk Home: A Novel

The Long Walk Home: A Novel

When forty-three-year-old Fiona Edwards first sees the lanky backpacker striding up the lane toward her award-winning farmhouse bed-and-breakfast in the remote mountains of North Wales, sheâ‚¬s puzzled. Sheâ‚¬s used to unexpected strangers, but few arrive on foot. The man to whom she opens her door is
middle-aged, unshaven, sweat-soaked . . . and arrestingly handsome. What neither of them knows at that moment is that their lives are about to change forever.

American Alec Hudson has carried the ashesâ‚¬"and the memoryâ‚¬"of his late ex-wife, Gwynne, all the way from Londonâ‚¬s Heathrow Airport, honoring her request that he scatter them atop a mountain they had climbed together years beforeâ‚¬"the same brooding peak whose jagged cliffs rise to the sky from the back pastures of Fionaâ‚¬s farm. But the weather doesnâ‚¬t cooperate, and as Fiona and Alec wait for it to clear, they are drawn together by mutual loss, longing, and the miracle of love at midlife.

On the day he finally reaches the summit, Alec is caught in a vicious hailstorm. As he struggles to descend, he stumbles upon the body of a man he recognizes from a photograph at the farm: it is Fionaâ‚¬s ailing and reclusive husband, David, and he is close to death.

Will Northâ‚¬s debut novel, 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 fidelityâ‚¬"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.

For news, reviews, and a visual walking tour, visit WillNorthOnline.com.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2007-08-14
EANs 9780307383020

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2007-08-14
EANs	9780307383020

The Long Walk Home: A Novel

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