All the Beggars Riding

When Lara was 12, her father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month, and they only once went on a family holiday together, to Spain, where their mother cried and their father left early. Because home, for their father, wasn't Earls Court: it was Belfast, where he led his other life...


Genre: Literary Fiction