I adored Isla from the start and I loved getting to know Charlie alongside Isla. I’m such a fan of stories that span generations and I loved how this was always apparent, but as the story continued the integration of the ages made the story. Although in saying that the more I found out the more questions came up. Around 50% into the novel I was starting to see a pattern forming and was wanting to know more and more. I loved how the chapters were in the then and now and more often than not we would get the explanation to our brimming questions. The Long Way Home spans four generations of the same family – spanning from UK/Scotland in the now and Paris in the 1950s. A thought provoking and at times heart wrenching tale.
Review: This is my first introduction to Fanny Blake’s writing and I’m blown away. 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.
Blurb: A family secret, a mysterious legacy, and a journey that will change everything…
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