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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Overall enjoyed the story with mixed emotions. Being not fond of infidelity, and/or adultery, it was difficult to root for the main characters. Many moments of wondering if it was necessary to have such detail of the lovemaking. Sometimes, its best to leave it to our imagination. ( ) Review: The Long Walk Home by Will North. I was captivated by the story and I felt it was well written. It held the emotions of love and loss, grief and hopes between to struggling people who tried to do what was right and not show their emotions of passion that they thought they would never feel again. There have been comments that the book is overly descriptive. Yes, it was descriptive but it made me see and feel so much of the environment, places, and people which I thought enhanced the story. I also felt I really understood each character and the image of landscape beauty. It begins with Alex walking a long journey from Heathrow airport to a valley in the north of Wales to climb a mountain, Cadair Idris to spread his wife’s ashes, her last wish, at the summit of this mountain. As Alex entered the valley he looked for a place to stay for a couple of days. He came across a sheep farm which was also a B&B Inn where Fiona and her ill-husband welcomed visitors which was close to the base of the mountain that he was going to climb. Alex asked for a room but the inn rooms were full but there would be one opened the next day so he left. Alex did return back to the Inn soon after he left to ask if he could pitch his tent away from the house until the next day. This is where the story actually started where the friendship between Alex and Fiona grew stronger. As the story goes on the reader will notice the connection between Alex and Fiona, how they thought and did take into consideration that Fiona had an ill-husband. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: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, she's puzzled. She'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 ashes--and the memory--of his late ex-wife, Gwynne, all the way from London's Heathrow Airport, honoring her request that he scatter them atop a mountain they had climbed together years before--the same brooding peak whose jagged cliffs rise to the sky from the back pastures of Fiona's farm. But the weather doesn'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 Fiona's ailing and reclusive husband, David, and he is close to death. Will North'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 fidelity--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. From the Hardcover edition.. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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