 He is caught between the warfare playing out on foreign fields (mainly at Flanders) and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2005.In a 2009 US National Public Radio interview, author R. L. Stine stated that "A Long Long Way" was one of the most beautifully written books he had ever read, and gave copies of the novel to friends and family to read.