All the Beggars Riding
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All the Beggars Riding

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eBook - ePub

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

  1. Title page
  2. Dedication
  3. Epigraph
  4. Late May, a Thursday
  5. The Chernobyl Effect
  6. The memoirs of Lara Moorhouse
  7. The story of Jane Moorhouse
  8. What happened next
  9. Afterwards
  10. Appendix: transcripts
  11. Author’s note
  12. Acknowledgements
  13. About the author
  14. By the same author
  15. Copyright