''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 TimesYou’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.