How to Find Your Way Home
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
What if the person you thought you’d lost forever walked back into your life?
A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from the author of Little Big Love.
Emily has been looking for the same face in every crowd for more than a decade: her brother’s. She’ll do anything to find him, she just never expects that one day he will walk through the door of the London housing office where she works, homeless and in need of help.
Emily’s overjoyed to see Stephen—her older brother, her hero, the one who taught her to look for the flash of a bird’s wings and instilled in her a love and respect for nature’s wonders—and invites him to live with her. But the baggage of the day that tore them apart, more than fifteen years before, is heavy. As they attempt to rebuild their relationship, they embark on the birding adventure they’d always promised to take when they were just children running wild in the wetlands of Canvey Island. And so, amid the soft, familiar calls of the marsh birds, they must finally confront what happened that June day—and in all the days since—if they are to finally find their way home.
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.
