The Home Child

The Home Child

Winner of the Writer's Prize 2024

Paperback (04 Apr 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*

Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home

'Ground-breaking' Benjamin Zephaniah
'Beautifully crafted' Guardian
'Extraordinary' Hannah Lowe


In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return or see her family again.

With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of her surroundings is the only solace Eliza has - until another Home Child, a boy, arrives at the farm and changes everything.

Inspired by the true story of Liz Berry's great aunt, this spellbinding novel in verse is an exquisite portrait of a girl far from home.

'One of the outstanding books of this year. Although this is a historical tale its resonance is timeless' Sunday Times

'Deeply moving. A graceful, delicate book, stunning in its emotional depth... I know I'll return to it many times in the future' Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

About the Publisher

Vintage

Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529937817
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Vintage
Pub date:
Edition: Winner of the Writer's Prize 2024
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 98g
Height: 129mm
Width: 197mm
Spine width: 11mm