![]() The Long Way Home is set between the UK in 2019 and Paris in 1954. The Long Way Home is one of those stories that I found myself thinking about as I went about my day and looked forward to sitting down to read and catch up with the cast of characters. My gosh, what I have been missing! If The Long Way Home is anything to go by, I need to immediately read Fanny Blake’s backlist. When SJ at Simon and Schuster kindly sent me a finished hardback copy of The Long Way Home, I was delighted. My mum keeps telling me how good her novels are, I’ve read snippets, and we’ve chatted at Readers Day at Guildford Book Festival and other events, so I should have read one before now. I have a confession to make: this is the first of Fanny Blake’s novels I’ve read from cover to cover. The Long Way Home is set in the UK and 1950s Paris where the story really begins, spanning four generations of women and the secrets that get passed down through them. Cramped together in Isla’s car with her smelly old dog, these ill-assorted travelling companions set off to uncover some shattering and life-changing family truths at the same time as learning to love each other… So, to find an explanation for her mother’s rejection, she embarks on a road-trip.īut, right at the last moment, she’s forced to take her sullen – and, in her view, impossible – 14-year-old granddaughter Charlie with her. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her own terms, the last thing she expects at this time of her life is such turmoil. When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is devastated. ~ From the back of the book ~Ī family secret, a mysterious legacy, and a journey that will change everything… My thanks to SJ at Simon and Schuster for sending me a hardback copy of the book in return for this honest review.īefore I share my thoughts with you, here is what The Long Way Home is about. I am thrilled to be sharing my review of The Long Way Home by Fanny Blake with you on its publication as a paperback book here in the UK.
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