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The Home Child

English

By (author): Liz Berry

*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR*

Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home

Ground-breaking Benjamin Zephaniah
Beautifully crafted Guardian
Extraordinary Hannah Lowe


In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return or see her family again.

With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of her surroundings is the only solace Eliza has until another Home Child, a boy, arrives at the farm and changes everything.

Inspired by the true story of Liz Berrys great aunt, this spellbinding novel in verse is an exquisite portrait of a girl far from home.

One of the outstanding books of this year. Although this is a historical tale its resonance is timeless Sunday Times

Deeply moving. A graceful, delicate book, stunning in its emotional depth... I know I'll return to it many times in the future Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

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Product Details
  • Weight: 97g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529937817

About Liz Berry

Liz Berry is an award-winning poet and author of the critically acclaimed collections Black Country (Chatto 2014); The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto 2018); The Dereliction (Hercules Editions 2021) a collaboration with artist Tom Hicks; and most recently The Home Child (Chatto 2023) a novel in verse. Lizs work described as a sooty soaring hymn to her native West Midlands (Guardian) celebrates the landscape history and dialect of the region. Liz has received the Somerset Maugham Award Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and Forward Prizes. Her poem Homing a love poem for the language of the Black Country is part of the GCSE English syllabus. Liz is a patron of Writing West Midlands and lives in Birmingham with her family.

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