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A Run in the Park

David Park author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:31st Oct '19

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A funny, tender and moving book about love, loss and running, to be serialised on BBC Radio 4 in ten parts, by the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year

'I loved this book' Daily Mail Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter’s house, the place he is not allowed to enter. Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges faced and by the time of their final run together all will grasp a new commitment to life itself.

One of Ireland's great novelists -- Roddy Doyle
I loved this book: short, moving, funny, positive and beautifully written. It made me want to take up running myself. Almost * Daily Mail *
A writer’s writer … Park is to be commended for his great skill with language and emotion -- John Boyne
Every sentence in Park’s book is felt -- Claire Kilroy * Guardian *
It is time to call David Park what he is – a very great writer -- Frank McGuinness
Extraordinary and beautiful -- Lisa McInerney

ISBN: 9781526619976

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 192g

112 pages