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All the Beggars Riding

3.4/5 ( ratings)

From the author of The Meeting Point 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 just as she realises that the time to get any sort of answers is running out.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber Faber

Release: February 07, 2013

ISBN: 0571270557

ISBN 13: 9780571270552

All the Beggars Riding

3.4/5 ( ratings)

From the author of The Meeting Point 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 just as she realises that the time to get any sort of answers is running out.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Faber Faber

Release: February 07, 2013

ISBN: 0571270557

ISBN 13: 9780571270552

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