Bestselling Irish author Michael Harding will be at Kennys Bookshop on October 15th to join Tom Kenny in conversation about his new book, I Loved Him From The Day He Died.

This event is ticketed but spaces are limited. Tickets are free.

Michael Harding is a playwright, novelist and columnist for the Irish Times. His works include the bestselling memoirs Staring at Lakes, Hanging With The Elephant and Talking To Strangers.

About I Loved Him From The Day He Died:
To mark his 70th birthday, Michael Harding took a holiday in Spain, walking a short part of the Camino de Santiago in the early summer of 2024. But as he set off on this pilgrimage, Harding wasn’t alone. Accompanying him was his father, who passed away when Michael was just twenty-two. A man who was distant and aloof, but who had a profound effect on the writer’s life.

As he walks in the heat of the Spanish sun, with searing honesty and beautifully wrought prose, he examines how the father shapes the son — and how the boy becomes a man in the search for that which makes us whole: belonging. And, as Harding arrives back home after his trip, he discovers, finally, how to say goodbye.

Told with simple vulnerability and profound insight, I Loved Him from the Day he Died is a stunning and heartfelt examination of love, forgiveness and letting go.

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