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One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction- Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barrys highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers- he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home- waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising. Profoundly moving- intimate and epic- A Long Long Way charts and evokes a terrible coming of age- one too often written out of history....