{"product_id":"the-forest-is-the-path-gary-lightbody-9780008751906","title":"The Forest Is the Path","description":"\u003cp\u003e'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' Bono'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' The Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[An] astoundingly poetic book' Pandora Sykes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e You're falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGary Lightbody's phenomenal companion to Snow Patrol's No.1 Album of the same name is a remarkable work of narrative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Forest is the Path explores some of the main themes of the album; time, home, love, death and life, and serves as a prequel to the record, telling the story of his dad Jack's death. It tracks the journey he went on - a journey whose end seemed to unlock a part of Gary that had been dormant until he started to write songs again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the book that emerged from that time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Raw...and extraordinary.' Nihal Arthanayake\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Lightbody's propose is fluid and unflinchingly honest' The Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Absolutely beautiful.' Audrey Carville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I have both cried and laughed reading this book. It is beautiful.' Muireann O'Connell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gary Lightbody","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":48340381565171,"sku":"9780008751906","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780008751906.jpg?v=1767728248","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-forest-is-the-path-gary-lightbody-9780008751906","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}