Womens Prize For Fiction Winner
The Road Home
by Rose Tremain
Summary
A widower from Eastern Europe arrives in London to find work and send money home, navigating kitchens, building sites and loneliness. Tremain writes the immigrant experience with compassion and clear eyed realism, finding dignity and humour in precarious lives. Her hero's slow progress becomes a quietly hopeful argument about resilience and belonging.
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Historical Context & Significance
Published as Eastern European migration to Britain surged, the novel gave a human face to a charged political debate.