A novel of urgent humanity
Sunday Telegraph
Rose Tremain does not disappoint. <i>The Road Home </i>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 classic work by the gifted Tremain
Guardian
'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
A strikingly alert and humane profile of migrant labour... wild and beautiful and full of woe
Sunday Herald
Vivid, original and always engaging
The Times