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I Loved Him From The Day He Died

My Father, Forgiveness and a Final Pilgrimage

Author: Michael Harding  

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The new bestseller from beloved memoirist Michael Harding

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The new bestseller from beloved memoirist Michael Harding

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'I wanted him to be someone he wasn't. I wanted me to be someone I wasn't.'

A stunning new book from the number one bestselling, award-winning author of All the Things Left Unsaid and Staring at Lakes.

To mark his 70th birthday Michael Harding travelled to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago. Yet, as he set off on his pilgrimage, he found he wasn't alone. Accompanying him on his 126-kilometre walk in the

heat of the Spanish sun was the ghost of his long-dead father, a distant and aloof figure whom he lost when he was only twenty-two years old.

Here, with searing honesty and beautifully wrought prose, Harding examines how this man, who had died

almost half a century ago, could have had such a profound effect on the writer's life.

From the Ireland of his youth, to the time of his father's death, and to the holy wells and pubs he frequented in search of a connection with a man he never really knew, I Loved Him From The Day He Died is a heartfelt

examination of love, forgiveness and letting go - told with simple vulnerability and profound insight.

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Harding's prose style is fluid and fluent, like running water, simultaneously airy and earthy ... unflinching, merciless honesty Sunday Independent

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About the Author

Michael Harding is an author and playwright. A recipient of the Stewart Parker Award for theatre, a Hennessy Award for Short Stories and a Bank of Ireland/RTE award for Excellence in the Arts in 1990, he has written numerous plays for the Abbey Theatre and was writer in association with the National Theatre in 1993.

His novels include Bird in the Snow, The Trouble with Sarah Gullion and Priest. He is also the author of several bestselling memoirs including Staring at Lakes (winner of the Bord Gais Energy Book of the Year award), Hanging with the Elephant, Talking to Strangers, On Tuesdays I'm a Buddhist, Chest Pain and What is Beautiful in the Sky.

He is a member of Aosdana, a columnist for over fifteen years with The Irish Times and his podcasts are available on the Patreon platform.

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Product Details

Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Published
3rd October 2024
Pages
272
ISBN
9781529379228

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