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    Home Fires
    Home Fires
    Home Fires
    Audiobook9 hours

    Home Fires

    Written by Elizabeth Day

    Narrated by Lucy Scott

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    About this audiobook

    A stunning, delicate portrait of a family bookended by war, Home Fires explores the legacy of loss, the strictures of class and the long road to redemption.

    Max Weston, twenty-one, leaves for his first army posting in central Africa. What happens to him changes the lives of his family forever. At home, his parents struggle to cope. The overwhelming love Caroline has always felt for her only child is now matched by the intensity of Max's absence. The silence is broken by the arrival of Caroline's mother-in-law, Elsa, who at the age of ninety-eight can no longer look after herself. After years of living in fear of putting a foot wrong in front of this elegant, cuttingly courteous lady, finally, Caroline has the upper hand.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 21, 2019
    ISBN9780008339890
    Home Fires
    Author

    Elizabeth Day

    Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and broadcaster based in the UK. Her chart-topping podcast, How to Fail, is a celebration of the things that haven’t gone right. Guests have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, Andrew Scott, Lily Allen, Mabel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Malcolm Gladwell. It won the Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. Elizabeth is the author of the novel The Party, which was published in the US in 2017.

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    • 4/5
      Judith is a young girl when her father returns from the war, a man much changed, prone to fits of anger and despair. A father Judith no longer knows and a father of whom she is scared.We again meet Judith years later as an old woman whose mind is being taken over by Alzheimer, and we travel with her as she sees things through a different and corrosive lens of this disease.Andrew and Caroline have only had one son, a son who is declared dead after his first posting in the army. All these events connect in this intense but gently told story. The effects of shell shock on our veterans throughout the years and all the wars. One of the most poignant and powerful rendering of a mother's grief at the loss of her son. A travel through the mind of Alzheimers and a frightening look at the confusion and forgetfulness of the sufferer. An intense look at the effects of war on all involved. Yet life must go on for the living and these characters must find a way to do just that. ARC from NetGalley.