The Forest Is the Path: Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller - A special companion book to the number 1 bestselling album by Snow Patrol

ISBN: 0008751900

Author: Lightbody, Gary

Condition: Used

'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 TimesYou?re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.The 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.Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion to Snow Patrol's No.1 Album of the same name is a remarkable work of narrative writing.The 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.This is the book that emerged from that time.Gary Lightbody's book 'The Forest Is the Path' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-03-17.