Sarah A Smith
Glasgow Rangers
Rachel Seiffert’s meticulously constructed third novel opens intriguingly with the arrival of a shabby, undernourished young man looking for work on a Glasgow building project. Apparently without home or family (and also without his own work boots), Stevie is an enigma in the eyes of Jozef, the Polish site manager whose own sense of family and community makes his new recruit’s situation unimaginable. The question The Walk Home sets out to answer is: what traumas in Stevie’s short life have led to such a desperate situation?
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