The Forest Is the Path

'The pages sing in this beautiful book.' - Bono 'Moving and lyrical, The Forest is the Path is an imaginative and deeply personal journey of self-discovery.' - The Irish Times

You're falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.

The numbness had set in long before I sat at your bedside. But even with senses impaired as the flight touches down at Belfast City I can somehow still feel the screeching of wheels on tarmac scorching something deep into me.

Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion to Snow Patrol's No.1 Album of the same name is a remarkable work of narrative writing.

The Forest is the Path explores some of the main themes of the album; time, home, love, death and life, and serves as a prequel to the record, telling the story of his dad Jack's death. It tracks the journey he went on - a journey whose end seemed to unlock a part of Gary that had been dormant until he started to write songs again.

This is the book that emerged from that time.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 09/02/2025
ISBN: 9780008751906
Pages: 160