{"id":42176,"date":"2025-10-22T09:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42176"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:50:31","slug":"walking-out-of-this-world-by-stephen-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=42176","title":{"rendered":"Walking out of this World by Stephen Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>An ethereal, deeply felt tale of redemption and the haunting pull of the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ford\u2019s latest is a finely woven novel where the quiet realism of the English countryside meets the shimmer of the mystical and the depths of the human mind. A mysterious man named Miles appears out of the drizzle to join a walking group in the Surrey Hills, curiosity turns to unease. He leads them to Miteby, a place too perfect to be real, suspended somewhere between memory and myth.&nbsp; In the shadows, Miles\u2019s rival, Lucifix, waits to claim the fallen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The novel breathes in the texture of the English countryside, while threading its realism with something uncanny. Miteby becomes less a place than a mirror of longing, where Ford explores the human instinct to rewrite one\u2019s own story.&nbsp; The writing has a quiet luminosity, its rhythm echoing the steady pace of a long walk: deliberate, meditative, punctuated by revelation: \u201cSet in the woodland clearing in an unspoiled corner of the Surrey hills, the wheels crunched over crumbling, fungus-encrusted remnants of an old log.\u201d When the story hints that the walkers\u2019 visions may stem from poisonous mushrooms, Ford doesn\u2019t offer neat answers. Instead, he leaves readers balancing between reason and wonder, the material and the mystical. Readers seeking an atmospheric story steeped in English landscapes and spiritual mystery will be richly rewarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A haunting, beautifully wrought novel that asks what lies beyond the visible world\u2014and whether confronting our ghosts is the same as escaping them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walking-this-World-Stephen-Ford\/dp\/1788649893\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Walking-this-World-Stephen-Ford\/dp\/1788649893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date November 16, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Cinnamon Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 978-1788649896<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Price $16.00 (USD) Paperback, $10.99 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ethereal, deeply felt tale of redemption and the haunting pull of the past. 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