Walking With Ghosts
12 November 2020Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Walking with Ghosts is the stunningly evocative memoir by Irish actor and Hollywood star, Gabriel Byrne.
'Dreamy, lyrical and utterly unvarnished' – Colm Tóibín
As a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to...
Details
12 November 2020224 pages
9781529027433Imprint: Picador
Reviews
The wonder of this memoir is its unembellished truth. It is written by a man whose amazing story is the stuff of literatureEdna O'Brien
So beautiful, it seems extraordinary that [Byrne] has kept this light under a bushel all this time . . . GorgeousGraham Norton, BBC Radio 2
An absolutely marvellous book . . . beautifully written, poetic . . . it’s a really riveting readColm Tóibín
Gabriel Byrne has written the most beautiful memoir. This is haunting prose and wondrous, sad, uplifting, my book of the yearClaire Keegan
