It is 1987, two years after Live Aid and PR expert Adrian Burles,
working with charity Africa Assist has a Big Idea that he thinks
will keep Ethiopian hunger in the headlines and touch heartstrings
(and purse strings) of people in the West. Aided by Anne Chaffey,
an experienced nurse who has worked at the famine frontline for
many years, he locates a young, malnourished Afar man called
Mujtabaa wandering alone in the desert and flies him back to
London. The world's media are then invited to witness a skeletal
Mujtabaa making a week-long walk from Heathrow to a rally in
Trafalgar Square. In fundraising terms, this us a great successbut
the ethics of the exercise, the human impact on all concerned and
the ultimate result are all profoundly to be questioned. The Walk
is a provocative and unsettling novel about the morality of
charity, the media and public relations. Situated in one single
week it explores how far you can go to prick the public conscience.
Peter Barry was born in England, brought up in Scotland and now
lives in Australia. He is the author of two other novels, I Hate
Martin Amis Et Al and We All Fall Down and has had many short
stories published in literary journals. He was shortlisted for
Australia Book Review's Calibre essay prize. He has been a
copywriter in both the UK and Australia and has also written three
corporate books. "
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