{"product_id":"9780008751906","title":"The Forest is the Path","description":"Author: Gary Lightbody\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780008751906\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: HarperCollins Publishers\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Sep 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 160 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' Bono\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou’re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Lightbody's phenomenal companion to Snow Patrol's No.1 Album of the same name is a remarkable work of narrative writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the book that emerged from that time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[An] astoundingly poetic book’ – Pandora Sykes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Raw…and extraordinary.' – Nihal Arthanayake\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Lightbody's propose is fluid and unflinchingly honest' – \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Absolutely beautiful.' Audrey Carville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I have both cried and laughed reading this book. It is beautiful.’ – Muireann O'Connell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46544538894494,"sku":"HPC-9780008751906","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780008751906.jpg?v=1771649004","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780008751906","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}