Away
Bloom, Amy

Description

Amy Bloom's first novel in eight years has a storyline that will appeal to those that have enjoyed Rose Tremain's 2008 Orange Prize-winning "The Road Home". In "Away", the emotive, witty and, above all, tough Lillian Leyb has arrived in 1920s America believing her daughter to have been killed in the pogroms of her Siberian homeland. But news reaches her that perhaps her daughter is still alive and so begins an American road-trip with a difference as Lillian makes her way towards home across the vast North American continent. Adversity follows adversity, tough encounter follows tough encounter in a gripping and at times moving novel with a remarkable heroine.

Paperback - Granta - 2008 

Price: £7.99

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