The Slow Way

Twenty-four years ago, on a corner in North London, asixteen-year-old boy was killed in four seconds. Dave Mullen was there. He has told the same four sentencesabout that night ever since, and not one of them is true. Now his oldest friend is dead at forty - the slow way, twelve floors up, alone - and the ones who got out arecoming back for the funeral. Kestrel House is condemned.The pub is sold. They have a fortnight on the estate thatmade them, and every one of them has brought a version ofhimself home to defend. Dave's son Jake is sixteen. He is drifting towardssomething his father can see coming and cannot talk about. And when a letter arrives addressed to D. Mullen, it is thewrong Mullen who opens it. The Slow Way is a novel about the men who stayed andthe ones who left, about grief that takes twenty years tofinish the job, and about what it costs a father to finallysay what he saw.