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The Long Walk Home

A Novel

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The Long Walk Home

By: Will North
Narrated by: Kate Reading
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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.
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Fiction Romance Women's Fiction Marriage Heartfelt
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Vivid Descriptions • Heartwarming Love Story • Excellent Narration • Beautiful Welsh Setting • Tender Emotional Depth
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I enjoyed the book, especially descriptions of the countryside. Good plot. I liked the narration.

Enjoyable listen!

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

great introspective story.

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

Enjoyed

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I have to say one of the best books I have listened to in a while. Great narrator, wonderful story!!!!

Awesome

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but I cannot help thinking, how unlikely is to fell in deep love in 3 days. But it was a pleasant listening. I really enjoyed the accent.

Nice story

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I absolutely loved this novel, you literally cry and feel the emotions through the writing and especially the narration. It's like your transported right there. It will be on my MYST READ AGAIN and often list for sure. I hope there is more storyline for these characters on the way.

Absolutely Heart stopping

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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.

A genuine five star book and performance

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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.

Wonderful!

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

very cute!

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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!

Beautifully written.

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