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All the Beggars Riding
About this book
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 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 time is running out
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Table of contents
- Title page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Late May, a Thursday
- The Chernobyl Effect
- The memoirs of Lara Moorhouse
- The story of Jane Moorhouse
- What happened next
- Afterwards
- Appendix: transcripts
- Author’s note
- Acknowledgements
- About the author
- By the same author
- Copyright