All the Beggars Riding
Author | : Lucy Caldwell |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2013-01-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780571270576 |
ISBN-13 | : 0571270573 |
Rating | : 4/5 (573 Downloads) |
Download or read book All the Beggars Riding written by Lucy Caldwell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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