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This is a wonderfully evocative novel that delineates the essential fragility and loneliness of life. Written in haunting sentences that capture the vicissitudes of fate and happenstance, this is Fords finest work to date quite simply a masterpiece Mail on Sunday First, Ill tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later This is a wonderfully evocative novel that delineates the essential fragility and loneliness of life. Written in haunting sentences that capture the vicissitudes of fate and happenstance, this is Fords finest work to date quite simply a masterpiece Mail on Sunday First, Ill tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that lead to Dell Parson’s parents robbing a bank. They weren’t reckless people, but in an instant, their actions alter fifteen-year-old Dell’s sense of normal life forever. In the days that follow, he is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of the border. Magnificent, compassionate, strangely languorous ... Ford’s genius at capturing human frailty and its pitiful disguises burns through this novel Daily Telegraph A masterpiece ... apowerfully human and profound novel that makes one sigh, shudder and weep. Here is greatness. No doubt about it Eileen Battersby, Irish Times ,A real king returns ... a story, and a vision, as sweeping as its landscapes, Boyd Tonkin, Independent