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PRAISE FOR MICHAEL HARDING'S BOOKS
'Harding's prose style is fluid and fluent ... unflinching, merciless honesty'
Sunday Independent
'Hilarious and tender ... beautifully written'
Kevin Barry
'A beautiful book of great tenderness, love of life, and wisdom'
Joseph O'Connor
'Compelling'
Sunday Times
About the Book
A stunning new book from the number one bestselling, award-winning author of All the Things Left Unsaid and Staring at Lakes.
To mark his 70th birthday, Michael Harding travelled to Spain and walked the Camino de Santiago. Yet, as he set off on his pilgrimage, he found he wasn't alone. Accompanying him on his 126-kilometre walk in the heat of the Spanish sun was the ghost of his long-dead father, a distant and aloof figure whom he lost when he was only twenty-two years old.
Here, with searing honesty and beautifully wrought prose, Harding examines how this man, who had died almost half a century ago, could have had such a profound effect on the writer's life.
From the Ireland of his youth, to the time of his father's death, and to the holy wells and pubs he frequented in search of a connection with a man he never really knew, I Loved Him From The Day He Died is a heartfelt examination of love, forgiveness and letting go - told with simple vulnerability and profound insight.
About the Author
Michael Harding is a writer, podcaster and commentator. He was born in Cavan in 1953 and has received both the Stewart Parker Award and an RTÉ Arts Show/Bank of Ireland Award for his theatre work. The Abbey Theatre has staged Strawboys (1987), Una Pooka (1989), Misogynist (1990), Hubert Murray’s Widow (1993) and Sour Grapes (1997). The Tinker’s Curse was nominated for Best New Play, at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2007. His fiction includes Priest (1986) and The Trouble with Sarah Gullion (1988). He has written an acclaimed series of memoirs, starting with Staring at Lakes (2013) to his most recent I loved Him From the Day He Died (2024) He is a member of Aosdána and lives with his wife, the artist Cathy Carmen, near Lough Allen in County Leitrim.
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