The Long Walk Home

A Novel

De: Will North

Narrado por: Kate Reading

Duración: 8 h y 54 m

Resumen del Editor

When 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 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.

©2013 Will North (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

A genuine five star book and performance

This is a story set in rural Wales. No glitz, no glamour, Just a simple, evocative story of two middle aged people living their lives, doing the right thing, and ultimately finding each other and their one true love. Excellent narration, wonderful descriptions of the Wales countryside and he lives at the Hill farmers. Caution: there is a small amount of sex in the story, but it is an integral and necessary part of this tale. Happy ending, a most satisfying story. I will save and listen to this one again. And again.

Wonderful!

This book just makes me feel like I want to go and visit North Wales and just see what happens. Such an amazing and heart warming book, be one of my top 10 listens.

very cute!

a very cute story! listened while painting the bathroom, easy listening completing my boring project!

Beautifully written.

Although I do not agree with the choices made by the main characters, I have to say that this is one of the best books I've listened to in a while. The narration was perfect. The author and narrator made the characters so real. Don't pass this one by!

Loved it!

The Long Walk Home by Will North and narrated by Kate Reading is by far one of the best love stories ever. So enjoyable!

Entertaining

I enjoyed this book very much. I do recommend it to anybody I love the description of not only the landscape but the feelings and the joy of the ending.

Loved loved the book. All the characters came alive!!!

Wonderful written story if true love in its purest form. Absolutely brilliant story from the beginning to the end.

Enjoyable listen!

I enjoyed the book, especially descriptions of the countryside. Good plot. I liked the narration.

great introspective story.

great story for telling about cross roads midlife and choices to still be made.

Enjoyed

Enjoyed this book very much. Too bad the author has not written others or a sequel!