The Walk Home Rachel Seiffert by Rachel Seiffert 9780307908827, 0307908828 instant download after payment.

This is a powerful novel about the risk of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family. If you cut your ties, will you cut yourself adrift? Rachel Seiffert is an extraordinarily deft and humane writer who tells us the truth about love and about hope.

"Seiffert's writing is both tightly controlled and almost orchestral in its sweep. You feel every emotion deeply, even as you are conscious of Seiffert deliberately drawing these emotions out... a rare novel."   -  Irish Independent

Without your past, who are you? Where does it leave you when you go against your family, turn your back on your home; when you defy the world you grew up in? If you cut your ties, will you cut yourself adrift? 

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has. Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a labourer not so far from his childhood home in Glasgow. But Stevie hasn’t told his family - what’s left of them - that he’s back. Not yet.

"Unsparing, thoughtful and immaculately researched... Seiffert has a fine ear for Glasgow speech and an even better eye for images... a rich, nuanced portrait of a changing community... beautifully, sparely rendered."   - The Guardian

Moving between Stevie’s contemporary Glaswegian life and the story of his parents when they were young, The Walk Home is a powerful novel about the risk of love, and the madness and betrayals that can split a family.  An extraordinarily deft and humane writer, Rachel Seiffert tells us the truth about love and about hope.