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Slow the Road Shows
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781913853167
Publisher: Black Bee Books Ltd.
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Easter, 1999. In the shadow of Epynt mountain, fifteen-year-old Finn is about to make a grim discovery. One that will set him on a road there is no coming back from. A road that will lead through tangled family history, a community betrayed, and a landscape steeped in tragedy.
Alone on their isolated farm, can Finn protect his baby sister from the forces closing in? It's not just the rain coming in through the roof that threatens to flood them, or the social workers, or the school attendance officers. There are ghosts in the valley that will not rest.
Reviews of Slow The Road Shows
Kathy Biggs (Author of The Luck, Scrap, and Attention All Shipping) says, This is a remarkable debut novel by a talented and natural storyteller. The characters and plot were crafted with a confident and skillful hand and the story, which unfolded at a perfect pace, kept me constantly engaged and guessing. There is an ease to Ian O'Brien's writing - a natural eye for detail and description that I believe will carry him far.
Stuart Maconie (Iconic broadcaster and journalist) says, A quietly haunting story of love, loss and family set amongst Welsh hills, 80s Manchester and suffused with shadows and echoes.
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