I found this a lovely book, often dealing with sensitive issues with compassion and a light, deft touch. The story within the story unfurls as he very accrately describes the undulations of the vagaries of the Ulster Way. One might confuse the walkways of the Ulster Way as the way things are in Ulster! His descriptions of the land almost allow the land of each county to tell its own tale. The Northern Irish humour can be dark, and yet very, very funny and Will Ferguson has captured these aspects thoroughly. Some of his characters are so vividly drawn that they are very familiar in personality and behaviour, consequently very real. It is a book that will reveal more nuggets on reading again… Read more
