The Road Home

'Tremain is a magnificent story-teller'

Independent on sunday

...bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying

Independent

Luminous talent for the fusion of the extraordinary and the commonplace

Sunday Telegraph

I can't think of a better sentence-to-sentence writer of fiction

Irish Times

Vivid, original and always engaging

The Times

This is a humane and moving account of the migrant experience in contemporary London, full of understanding and compassion about the difficulties of alienation and belonging

Mail on Sunday

Here, as in her best work, Tremain achieves a remarkable synthesis of fully realised character and the systematic observation of a world.The Road Home is a subtle and challenging account of a story we think we know already and of a person we all too often reduce to nothing more than a political issue or a statistic.

Lavinia Greenlaw, Financial Times

Rose Tremain is a novelist of style, ambition and lyrical sensibility...This is a generous, sweet-tempered book

Sunday Times

A magnificent achievement from a writer at the height of her very considerable powers

Daily Mail

Rose Tremain is an old-fashioned writer, in the best of ways: we care about her characters' sorrows and hope for their happiness

Daily Telegraph

A classic work by the gifted Tremain

Guardian

Tremain allows us to see our country's wonders and failings as if for the first time

Glamour

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 strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour... wild and beautiful and full of woe

Sunday Herald