The Walk Home

Rachel Seiffert became a household name with her Man Booker-shortlisted novel The Dark Room, and her latest offering, The Walk Home, boasts the same ambition and power for which her debut novel was so praised.

This deeply moving tale centres around Protestant and Catholic rivalries in Glasgow — in part during the Troubles in the 1990s and in part, as it is today. In the first of the two eras, newly-wed couple Graham and Lynsey move to Glasgow with their young son Stevie, to start a life near Graham’s family. But Lynsey soon realises the religiously-divided world she fled in Ireland exists in her new life and those tensions soon prove too much for the couple’s marriage.