The Forest is the Path

Sunday Times and Irish Bestseller - A special companion book to the number 1 bestselling album by Snow Patrol

Read by: Gary Lightbody

Author: Gary Lightbody

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Digital Audiobook

Duration
03:23.15

Published: 13th March 2025

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'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' Bono

'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' The Irish Times

You're falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.

The 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.

Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion to Snow Patrol's No.1 Album of the same name is a remarkable work of narrative writing.

The 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.

This is the book that emerged from that time.

'[An] astoundingly poetic book' - Pandora Sykes

'Raw...and extraordinary.' - Nihal Arthanayake

'Lightbody's propose is fluid and unflinchingly honest' - The Irish Times

'Absolutely beautiful.' Audrey Carville

'I have both cried and laughed reading this book. It is beautiful.' - Muireann O'Connell