A Life Of Discovery

One Day I’ll Fly Away by Nick Evetts is a poignant bittersweet contemporary novel that I enjoyed.

We follow a middle-aged man who is having a crisis of identity. He leaves his home and travels to the south west of England. We see a broken man who is transformed by kindness and compassion as a community figuratively nurses him back to health.

The fresh air of the Cornish landscape contrasts with the stifling urban landscape.

We are also privy to the life he left behind. We see a wife and two young children, struggling to cope without a husband and father.