Praise for The Roadmap of Loss
‘Liam Murphy has taken a great and familiar form, the American road novel, and infused it everywhere with his own lyrical and melancholic exploration of a young man’s pitfalls as he traces his father’s footsteps. Fuelled by bitter grievances and restless sorrow, Mark Ward faces numerous challenges, but none are as confronting as when he is forced to drag forgiveness from within himself. Beautifully structured, imaginatively conceived, The Roadmap of Loss is a compelling story about loss, failure and self-destruction – but also about human resilience, and how grace can appear from the most unexpected places.’