The Road Home
British novelist, born 1943. Won the Costa Novel Award in 1999 and the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2008.
The Road Home is a 2007 novel by Rose Tremain. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2008.
On 2 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Rose Tremain
- First published
- 2007
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2007
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 2008
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Migration and identity, Class and society, Love story
Is The Road Home worth reading?
2 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it: the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2007) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2008) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of The Road Home
The edition we link to is the Vintage Books paperback (2011).
- Publisher
- Vintage Books (paperback, 2011)
- ISBN
- 9780099563037
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Road Home
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
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