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Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, The Road Home is a wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

About the Author

Rose Tremain's bestselling novels have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country); Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and was appointed Chancellor of the University of East Anglia in 2013. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. www.rosetremain.co.uk

Reviews

A novel of urgent humanity
*Sunday Telegraph*

Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision
*Observer*

Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor
*Sunday Times*

A classic work by the gifted Tremain
*Guardian*

'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller'
*Independent on sunday*

A novel of urgent humanity * Sunday Telegraph *
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. The Road Home is thematically rich, dealing with loss and separation, mourning and melancholia... As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision * Observer *
Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor * Sunday Times *
A classic work by the gifted Tremain * Guardian *
'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller' * Independent on sunday *

Tremain's novel is a tender rendering of immigrant life in Britain, with all its cultural and financial complexities, its sadness, sunshine and striving to find the road home. Juliet Stevenson is an ideal narrator; her soft, low-pitched tones lure listeners in and keep them hooked. She copes well with a wide range of male and female, British, Irish, Indian and eastern European accents with characterizations that are believable and easy to distinguish. The abridgment is exceptional; episodes seem sequential and character development clear, while musical intervals indicate omissions. A Little, Brown hardcover (Reviews, Apr. 21). (Feb.) Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.