{"product_id":"9780008751906-retail-the-forest-is-the-path","title":"The Forest Is the Path","description":"'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   You'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.  '[An] astoundingly poetic book' - Pandora Sykes 'Raw...and extraordinary.' - Nihal Arthanayake 'Lightbody's propose is fluid and unflinchingly honest' -  The Irish Times 'Absolutely beautiful.' Audrey Carville 'I have both cried and laughed reading this book. It is beautiful.' - Muireann O'Connell","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48229941051611,"sku":"9780008751906-RETAIL","price":29.74,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b9fd21f7-96f6-4483-9891-1434f59b440b.jpg?v=1770453867","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780008751906-retail-the-forest-is-the-path","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}