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'Armitage has always been a wonderfully fluent writer, able to riff on almost any subject in either prose or poetry ... The result is a homage to an oddly old-fashioned Britain, full of glorious eccentrics and hearts of gold, but vividly believable for all that.' --Financial Times
'On the face of it, everything sounds rather plain, an old-fashioned world of packed lunches, mint cake and OS maps flapping in the wind, and also rather domestic ... But Walking Home is much more than this suggests. Armitage's great gift is his voice. He is able to make his walk talk as he does and I have never read a more fully inhabited book of walking. It is funny but moving, quiet but strong' -- Observer
'Armitage's journey is more pedestrian; a manageable distance along a worn path through familiar faces. But it's exactly those things which make this book so lovely. There are a thousand blogs out there offering accounts of walking everything from the Mongolian Steppes to Deptford High Street, all of them filled with exclamation marks and epiphanies, and all of them completely unreadable. But Armitage's account is so observant, so funny and so intensely likable you leave it wishing he'd picked a longer route. The dialogue is note-perfect and the jokes alone are worth the journey. And at the end of it all, Armitage has achieved far more than his stated ambition. Walking Home tells us not just about the bones of Britain, but about connections still to be forged between people and print, and the everlasting power of an open heart.' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way back to his birthplace, like a troubadour, like a tramp, like a human camera who turned what he saw on the way into words. A wonderful book.' --Jeanette Winterson, The Times Books of the Year
'[Armitage's] memoir of rough landscape, wild weather, poetic lore and modern country and small town life is richly evocative of his Northern character.' --The Times, Summer Books Roundup
'Laconic, contemplative style, and assured writing.' Sunday Business Post
'Wonderful blend of dry humour ... also a triumphant realisation that even if 'the land doesn't care, not one jot' abou --Daily Mail
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