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    "title": "The Forest is the Path",
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    "description": "You\u2019re falling through time so all I can do is fall with you.\n\nThe 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.\n\nSo begins Gary Lightbody's phenomenal companion book to Snow Patrol\u2019s number one album of the same name. While you don\u2019t have to read it to understand the album, you may want to give the album a wee listen for some parts of the book to make sense. There are references to the record with song lyrics dotted around within it.\n\nGary 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. \n\nNot to give away the ending or anything, but just so you know this book is not one of wallowing.\n\nThere is a purpose to it.",
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