Winner, Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionWinner, Roehampton Poetry PrizeWinner, Goldsmiths PrizeFinalist, Man Booker PrizeFinalist, Saltire Society Scottish Poetry Book of the Year AwardAn Economist Book of the YearWalker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can’t return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angeles and San Francisco, we witness a cruc