Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008
The Road Home is the best-selling story of Lev, a middle-aged migrant from Eastern Europe, who moves to London in search of work after losing his wife and job. Lev’s London is awash with money, celebrity and complacency. The world Tremain creates is both convincing and poignant. Rose Tremain is one of England’s bestselling literary novelists. Her books have won many prizes including the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Colour and The Way I Found Her are in development as films, and she is currently working on a television project to star Sir Ian McKellen.