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Home Leave

Home Leave

by Libby Purves (Author), Libby Purves (Author)

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    Hardcover 1997

    $3.31

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    Paperback 1998

    $3.46
Synopsis

Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, China or Los Angeles - wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle-age, married to a life of selfless cheeseparing idealism on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy young Kensington wife, and Toby - well, Toby is a problem. He always was. Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and singularly pointless feuds between the generations, Toby's mysterious disappearance jolts his sisters and brother into making angry, anxious journeys: across Europe, along California beaches, back in time and into their own hearts.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 280
 Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
 Publisher: Sceptre
Published: 19 Jun 1997
ISBN 10: 0340680407
ISBN 13: 9780340680407

Media Reviews
'A feel-good novel ... hilarious ... humorous ... fabulously incisive' -- Independent 'Purves' novel of ordinary lives is compelling, her perceptions are acute ... sophisticated and skilful' -- Daily Telegraph 'Libby Purves' prose is clean, sharp and in touch with things that matter' -- Valerie Grove, The Times
Author Bio
Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada What the Papers Say Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. Her books on family life, How Not to Be a Perfect Mother, How Not to Raise a Perfect Child and How Not to Be a Perfect Family have been widely translated. Her compendium Nature's Masterpiece appeared in 1999 to complete the work. She also wrote One Summer's Grace, an account of a voyage around Britain in a small sailing boat with her husband and two small children in 1988. She lives in Suffolk with her husband the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney, and their two teenage children.