Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Jack Broughton returns to his family home after twenty years away. The book tackles the subject of family relationships and how they affect our lives in the past, present and future – inescapable wherever we may run to. Strong characters and moving subject matter make this a mesmerising novel.
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WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009
Hundreds of thousands of readers were enthralled and delighted by the luminous, tender voice of John Ames in Gilead, Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
Now comes Home, a deeply affecting novel that takes place in the same period and same Iowa town of Gilead. This is Jack's story. Jack - prodigal son of the Boughton family, godson and namesake of John Ames, gone twenty years - has come home looking for refuge and to try to make peace with a past littered with trouble and pain. A bad boy from childhood, an alcoholic who cannot hold down a job, Jack is perpetually at odds with his surroundings and with his traditionalist father, though he remains Boughton's most beloved child.
His sister Glory has also returned to Gilead, fleeing her own mistakes, to care for their dying father. Brilliant, loveable, wayward, Jack forges an intense new bond with Glory and engages painfully with his father and his father's old friend John Ames.
Home features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Home is available in Hardback, Paperback
Home was written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Virago an imprint of Little, Brown
Home has 352 pages
£11.69
