A Run in the Park

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'I loved this book' Daily Mail Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter's house, the place he is not allowed to enter. Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges faced and by the time of their final run together all will grasp a new commitment to life itself.

David Park has written nine novels and two collections of short stories. His latest novel, Travelling in a Strange Land won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. His other books include The Light of Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize and The Poets' Wives, which was selected as Belfast's Choice for One City One Book 2014. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award four times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland. He has completed the Couch to 5k programme.

One of Ireland's great novelists -- Roddy Doyle I loved this book: short, moving, funny, positive and beautifully written. It made me want to take up running myself. Almost * Daily Mail * A writer's writer ... Park is to be commended for his great skill with language and emotion -- John Boyne Every sentence in Park's book is felt -- Claire Kilroy * Guardian * It is time to call David Park what he is - a very great writer -- Frank McGuinness Extraordinary and beautiful -- Lisa McInerney