Walking Home

My Family and Other Rambles

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Walking Home

By: Clare Balding

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Walking Home, by Clare Balding.

In Clare Balding's family, walking just took too long - she galloped through the countryside and she galloped through life. Then, in 1999, Clare took a call from a BBC producer looking for a presenter for a new radio series. 'Do you walk?' she asked. 'Well, I walk the dog . . .'

That series, Ramblings, is still going strong - and Clare's caught the walking bug. Now she wants her family to share some of that pleasure. Her and her brother Andrew are determined to conquer the Wayfarer's Walk, a 71 mile route. What could possibly go wrong?

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Brilliant, magical, unmissable

Who needs politicians agonising about national and regional identities? Clare Balding has effortlessly encapsulated all we love best about Britain

Clare Balding would be the ideal surrogate sister or auntie. The joy of this book is Balding's sheer rapture for life, movement and never shutting up about it

Balding has won over the literary world with her two volumes of autobiography

Even the most reluctant of walkers will be tempted to don wellies after reading Clare's wonderful descriptions... effortless charm

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Where does Walking Home rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It is hard to compare this with many of the other books I have read. It is part biography and part a practical and philosophical tract on walking (while being light and wryly humorous). Most importantly it opens up the subject of walking in Britain by connecting the reader to a range of other reading on the subject.

What other book might you compare Walking Home to, and why?

In many ways it is superior to Simon Armitage's book ... of the same name! Clare Balding's narration is much better and her story held my interest much more than that of Armitage.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

The book further energised my interest in walking, and particularly walking in Britain.