How To Find Your Way Home
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- 45,00 kr
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- 45,00 kr
Publisher Description
**A Prima magazine pick of the year**
Haunting, beautiful and uplifting, Katy Regan’s How to Find Your Way Home is about sibling love, the restorative power of nature and how home is found within us.
'A luminous novel about the power of love . . . It's beautiful, fascinating, perfectly crafted and life affirming. I adored it' - Rowan Coleman, author of The Summer of Impossible Things
What if the person you thought you’d lost forever walked back into your life?
In 1987, four-year-old Stephen Nelson welcomes his new baby sister, Emily. Holding her for the first time, he vows to keep her safe forever.
Nearly thirty years later, the two have lost touch and Stephen is homeless.
Emily, however, has never given up hope of finding her brother and when he arrives at the council office where she works, her wish to be reunited comes true. But should you be careful what you wish for?
As they embark on a road trip together, Emily is tormented by memories of a day fifteen years earlier that changed everything. Will confronting the secrets that tore them apart finally enable Emily and Stephen to make their peace – not just with their shared past and each other, but also themselves?
'Gorgeous' - Good Housekeeping
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Regan's moving if heavy-handed latest (after Little Big Love) turns on a family's hardships and the unconditional love between siblings. Emily Nelson, 31, frequently wonders about her brother, Stephen, 35, who has struggled with addiction and homelessness. While the two were very close during their childhood on Canvey Island, Essex, where their imaginations were captured by migratory birds, their contact has been strained and intermittent since an incident when Stephen was 16 involving a devastating fall from a ladder outside their house. The details are murky until the third act, but the reader learns Stephen was sent to prison at 16 while Emily went to college, and their stepfather, Mitch, has tetraplegia. Emily now works to provide housing to the homeless, and one day Stephen comes to her office, looking for a place to live. She takes him in, and Regan flashes back to their parents' divorce and mother's remarriage, what happened with the ladder, and the birds that were so important to Stephen. The bird migration metaphors are overly abundant, but the relationship between Emily and Stephen feels solid and true. While this doesn't quite soar from its formulaic trappings, it has plenty of moments of uplift.
