All the Beggars Riding
€12.75
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780571270569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucy Caldwell |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.218 |
| Publishing Date | 06/02/2014 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €12.03 |
| Tax | €0.72 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €12.75 |
| Availability | 4 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic, where he met their mother years before, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father lost his temper and left early.
Because home, for their father, wasn''t Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...
Narrated by Lara, nearing forty and nursing her dying mother, All the Beggars Riding is the heartbreaking portrait of a woman confronting her past just as she realises that time is running out