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Praise
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“Love that comes along too late—and thus is doomed by the prior
commitments of an honorable life—is dangerous territory, veering
close to the precipice of bathos. 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 |
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"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 |
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"North's bittersweet, romantic novel has invited some early comparisons with the bestselling work of Nicholas Sparks and Robert James Waller."
— Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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"How we perceive love and acknowledge its
obligations is at the core of this first novel by ghostwriter North.
. .If visions of Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep come to mind,
which they did briefly for this reviewer, the similarity to Robert
Waller's The Bridges of Madison County ends there. Fi and Alec do
share an immediate connection, but their witty exchanges and the
fascinating descriptions of climbing, cooking (yes, Alec can do it
in the kitchen), and lambing are absorbing from the very first. Alec
has experienced loss and doesn't want any more of it; Fi accepts
that her dreams might have to remain just that. . .a joy to read."
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Library Journal |
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"[A] lyrical first novel about love and loss. .
. North offers vivid descriptions of the Welsh countryside, capturing
its local dialect, flora and fauna, and wild weather. . .if Nicholas
Sparks set a novel in North Wales, it would read a lot like this!"
— Publishers Weekly |
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"A brilliantly realized romance..."
— The Strand Book Store, NYC |
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The Long Walk Home features some astute observations about the nature of the human condition, where fear of chaos, the collapse of order, and the triumph of confusion and tragedy can sometimes threaten to overtake us. Conversely, this enormously heartrending novel also tells us much about the unalterable, inexplicable power of love.
— Curled Up with a Good Book |
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