The Road Home

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

Rose Tremain

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English

Vintage
21 May 2020

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer

A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British- their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging...

'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday Telegraph

By: Rose Tremain
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 339g
ISBN: 9780099478461
ISBN 10: 0099478463
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 21 May 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rose Tremain lives in North London and Norwich, with the biographer Richard Holmes. Her books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Angel Literary Award and the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Restoration was shortlisted for the Booker and made into a film; The Colour was shortlisted for the Orange and selected by the Daily Mail Reading Club. Her most recent collection, The Darkness of Wallis Simpson, was shortlisted for both the First National Short story Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Two of her books (The Colour and The Way I Found Her) are in development as films, and she is currently working on a TV screenplay to star Sir Ian McKellen.

Reviews for The Road Home: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller' * Independent on sunday * A classic work by the gifted Tremain * Guardian * Filled with emotional richness, complex sensibility and a passionate insistence on the humanity of the poor * Sunday Times * 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 * A novel of urgent humanity * Sunday Telegraph *