The Road Home
by:
ROSE TREMAIN (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099478461 (0099478463)
ASIN: 0099478463
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Fiction
World Book Night 2013 kindly sent by Overbylass. Many, many thanks for furnishing me with a tome each year.
What can I say? Rose Tremain is a gift, I feel like I want to own every book she has ever written.This is about an immigrant from Eastern Europe, trying to find his way through life in London - painting a very familiar picture of Britain that makes me wonder why anyone ever wants to come here. I hav...
Fiction so convincing that it could be a true story.The journey begins with Lev's bus journey from his home in Poland to the loneliness of impersonal London. Lev is into his early forties, has recently lost his wife to cancer and believes that the only way that he can support his very young daughter...