The Long Way Home

Collected Stories — Twelve stories about departures, returns, and the beautiful trouble in between.

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A night-bus confession, a border-town wedding, a lighthouse keeper's last season — these twelve stories were gathered over a decade of travel, each one starting from something overheard, witnessed or narrowly survived.

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Inside

What's Inside.

Read them in order for a slow arc from leaving to belonging, or open anywhere: every story is a complete journey, and none of them ends quite where you expect.

Paperback collection, 248 pages, twelve stories
Includes the prize-longlisted title story 'Low Beam'
Story notes: where and how each piece began

Excerpt

The bus left at 2 a.m. and the whole town seemed to exhale. In the seat beside him a woman peeled an orange in one long ribbon and said, 'You look like you're going somewhere on purpose.' He laughed, because he wasn't, and told her everything anyway.

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