All the Beggars Riding
A Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction book. From BBC Radio 4 - Book at bedtime:If wishes were horses, beggars...
From the author of The Meeting Point (winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize, 2011) comes a powerful exploration of love, desire and family.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 had 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...
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- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780571270552 / 0
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From BBC Radio 4 - Book at bedtime:If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.)After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had the courage to ask her mother when she was alive. In particular, questions about her father.When Lara and her younger brother... A moving, well-crafted novel about family and betrayal, which more than lives up to its poetic title. While taking a creative writing class, a woman faces up to her past - her father, who died years before, was already married with another family. Author Lucy Caldwell looks at the nature of loss and the possibility of redemption. It... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. BABT(view spoiler)[BBC BLURBS: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. (Trad.)After the death of her mother, Lara Moorhouse finds herself besieged with questions about her childhood that she never had the courage to ask her mother when she was alive....
