By Donal RyanNarrated by Alana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Alan Smyth, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds, various narrators
Length5h 41m
About this audiobook
A new moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost.
For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. 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.
Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his small town life in Ireland. 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. There’s the secret his mother will never tell him. His granddad’s little sniping jokes are getting on his wick. And on top of all that, he has a bus to drive; those old folks from the home can’t wait all day.
The game was always the lifeblood coursing through John’s veins: manipulating people for his enjoyment, or his enrichment … or his spite. But it was never enough. The ghost of his beloved brother, and the bitter disappointment of his father, have shadowed him all his life. But now that lifeblood is slowing down, and he’s not sure if God will listen to his pleas for forgiveness.
Three men, searching for some version of home, their lives moving inexorably towards a reckoning that will draw them all together.
Narrated byAlana Kerr Collins, Gerard Doyle, Alan Smyth, Vikas Adam, Tim Gerard Reynolds, various narrators
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
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About the author
Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan is from County Tipperary in Ireland. His novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing about December, and All We Shall Know, and his short-story collection, A Slanting of the Sun, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Donal is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife, Anne Marie, and their two children just outside Limerick City.View all by Donal Ryan
