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\n\"The<\/a>The Way Home<\/a> by Amanda Prowse<\/a>
\nMy rating: 4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Time taken to read – in and out over 3 days<\/p>\n

Pages – 361<\/p>\n

Publisher – Lake Union Publishing<\/p>\n

Source – ARC<\/p>\n

Blurb from Goodreads <\/p>\n

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of Waiting to Begin and Ever After comes an evocative, tender story about belonging, community, and the relationships that hold us together.<\/p>\n

What if a stranger threatened to take away a lifetime of cherished memories?<\/p>\n

Lilly-Bob loves her home by the River Thames in the heart of London. Throughout her childhood, it echoed with music and her father\u2019s love, and for seventy years it\u2019s been her sanctuary through a life well lived. These days, the familiar walls and treasured memories keep loneliness at bay.<\/p>\n

But for months she\u2019s been ignoring letters from a building developer, and now a compulsory purchase scheme threatens to take her home by force. Seventeen-year-old Lilly-Bob didn\u2019t fear change, but present-day Lilly refuses to let go.<\/p>\n

As the pressure builds, Lilly feels increasingly alone. But as her neighbours rally together, she finds herself drawn into the fold\u2014making new friends, finding purpose, and glimpsing the possibility of something new.<\/p>\n

Torn between the comfort of the past and the call of progress, Lilly-Bob must is home made of bricks and mortar, or is it a place inside ourselves?<\/p>\n

My Review <\/p>\n

Lilly-Bob is in her seventies, she has been through a lot in her life and she is in the family home in London overlooking the Thames, once her dads, now hers. A big company is forcing her out of her home, the house she grew up in is now under a compulsory buy order. As Lilly fights against it we flip back and forth in time to when she was a wean, growing up, adulthood and everything that shaped who she is today, back to present day. We see her relationship with her neighbour and the neighbours wee boy, Lilly doesn’t have kids, her fight with the building developers. <\/p>\n

The past as with Prowse’s previous books, tackles some hard hitting emotive topics, love, loss, relationships, dynamics, coercion, lies, manipulation. Things that many of us have endured, survived and of course shapes us into the adults we are today. Her relationship with her mother is very strained, she adores her father, idolises him so when her mother makes choices that impact on him and the young Lilly-Bob it changes and shapes their relationship, or lack of, going forward.<\/p>\n

For me, what Lilly-Bob endured with her relationships\/friendships you can tell marked and shaped who she became but in the present day we get to see how those experiences left their mark and impact upon future relationships. The other main thread is the big company trying to get Lilly-Bob to agree to selling up and then when she isn’t for negotiating, forcing the sale, we feel the rage and fury she feels and the attachment to the house and memories. <\/p>\n

I think the thing with Prowse is she creates characters that you can identify with, sympathise or empathise with. It makes the characters real, vivid and you invest in them and their lives pretty much from the get go or early bells, 4\/5 from us for this one. She has quite a back catalogue and we have a fair few on the tbrm and a few more I need to buy. Her characters tend to stay with you long after you have put the book down!\n<\/p>\n

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View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n

The Way home is available on kindle and in paperback format, Amazon<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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