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'A first novel of exquisite power, honesty and conviction. It's portrait of how much has changed, and how little, over nearly a century, in the realms of race, love, hate and loss, is quite nearly without flaws' Jacquelyn Mitchard
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‘Absolutely wonderful’
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An absolutely cracking read! The story is sad, funny, and utterly believable. The book deals with undedrlying racial, physical, and mental abuse of the two main characters in the book, but it is all done in a very sensitive way.
The book made me laugh, cry, but most of all kept me page-turning until the end. As a debut novel for this author, I can only say, what comes next.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After selecting this book, I was enthralled from begining to end. I passed it to my daughter and daughter in law, we all thought it was the most emotional and heartening read we had in a long while. It takes us on a journey of heatbreak, love and faith, I cant wait to read another of her books. A truly uplifting book. In the meantime I am planning to read it again.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautifully written book. Rush home road centres around the world of a woman called Addy Shadd who at the age of seventy is left to look after a boisterous mouthy five year old, Sharla Cody, after she is abandoned into her care by her mother. Thw books storyline is split between the trailer park where the two currently reside, and the seventy years of Addy's tumolous life, both sentimental and powerful. Growing up as a black female in the U.S the book deals with issues such as racism rape and murder and there devastating consequences but also shows that some people do triumph in the face of adversity. It's a tale of the survival of a woman who had to fight through no fault of her own, and the way in which the oddest most unlikely relationships can grow. It is ultimately a book full of hope, wonderfully thought out, thoroughly touching, thought provoking and also terribly heartbreaking. be prepared with a box of tissues because you will cry more than once. Although not just with sadness but with joy, laughter, sympathy and recognition
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A fantastic read
It won't be the right book for you if you are looking for in depths analysis of race relations in the 1960s, that's not what it is, it's a novel with a hollywood spin to it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Kirsche
Amazing
Like one of the other reviews on here, I picked up this novel as I had really enjoyed "The Girls" by the same author. Read more
Published 12 months ago by sophynoo
Wonderful book. Highly recommended!
My partner bought me this book on the strength of it's 5 star reviews. Having read it over a weekend and throughly enjoyed it I felt I should add my own review in agreement to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Gemima G
Wonderful
Picked this book upon holiday in USA where it is set. From the very beginning the characters Addy and Sharla are beautifully described, thrown together, you can visualise their... Read more
Published 17 months ago by C. Jugg
I loved it.
I really loved it. It reminded me of the colour purple but much, much better. My mum & nana also read it after me & they also loved it - we have never all liked the same book... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Squeak
brilliant
A fantastic book. I cannot recommend this author enough. I read this book after reading her other two. Read more
Published on 9 April 2010 by A. Mulhern
Fantastic
I wanted to say Rush Home and Read but I see someone else beat me to it. At first I thought this was going to be a rip off of "To kill a mocking bird" but I was wrong. Read more
Published on 2 Sep 2009 by Dr Phibes
The Rush Home Road
This story is very dark and sad but an amazing account of Abby's life.
Well worth buying
Well worth buying
Published on 4 Mar 2009 by juggles
An Absolute Must!!!
I picked up "Rush Home Road" simply because I really enjoyed reading "The Girls". Although "The Girls" is very good, this book blows it out of the water!!!! Read more
Published on 11 Feb 2008 by Helen Lawrence
Wonderful- heart warming and heart wrenching
I grew up in the small city of Chatham where this book takes place and have visited the small village established by freed slaves that was the idea for the fictional village in... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2007 by oohmercyme
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