Finding Home, Roisin McAuley
Finding Home, Roisin McAuley
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Finding Home

Author: Roisin McAuley

Narrator: Annie Aldington

Unabridged: 9 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/21/2011


Synopsis

Louise and Rebecca, good friends since their BBC days in Belfast, work for a film company and are scouring the south of England for a suitable location to shoot a movie about Elizabeth I. As they stumble across Wooldene House, they meet Diana and Henry, who own the property.

Diana, widowed, feels her life is slowly crumbling along with the house, and yearns for new romance. Diana spends her time looking after their aunt Lucy who, as she senses time is running out, begins to share the startling secrets in her past.

And Henry, retired from the Army after a stint in Northern Ireland, is increasingly drawn to Louise - but their shared history, which places them on opposite sides of the troubles, threatens them both . . .

About Roisin McAuley

Roisin McAuley joined the BBC in Northern Ireland and went on to become a reporter for Spotlight, Newsnight, Panorama and File on 4. She has also produced and directed television documentaries for ITV and Channel 4 and written and presented programmes for BBC Radio.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emma

This is a topic I very rarely see explored in books for children. Seeing the photos and reading the kids' own words describing their experiences is so, so powerful. I am privileged to have been born in Canada, but I grew up around many refugee and immigrant children in schools and as friends. Howeve......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Perhaps this is for younger readers, yet I think it will bring both smiles and sympathy to see all these beautiful children who are in need, who have experienced very tough times and only wish to be children, playing and laughing with family and friends in safe places, in their own homes. Gwen Agna......more

Goodreads review by Mr.

Oh my heart! American picture book, 2024 publication. Pictures are photographs of children. Contains pictures of refugee children with speech bubbles explaining their flight from their home countries because of war, floods, drought, fire, etc. Ends hopefully with each child expressing a love for the......more

Goodreads review by Diana

This book is so beautiful-it's message and the photographs. It describes different ways that families had to go to country to country to country, reasons they had to leave their own countries, some of them got separated from other family members and it talks about different things that the kids like......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

The authors present the words of displaced children, telling who they are, where they came from, and the many reasons that they had to leave their home countries. Back matter for how children and adults can help immigrants and resources for parents, caregivers and teachers. I absolutely loved this b......more


Quotes

A good story well told Choice

Finding Home rewards every second the reader spends with it. A creator of wonderfully memorable characters, even McAuley's secondary creations are complex, well realised and morally interesting figures. McAuley has a Maeve Binchy-like capacity to give her characters quirks and turns of phrase that make them seem instantly true-to-life and compellling Sunday Business Post

A gripping novel Wigan Evening Post

A very relaxing read Women's Weekly

Enough intrigue, mystery and sharp turns to keep readers turning pages Sunday Tribune

An insightful and thoughtful novel, which will entertain but will also leave the reader thinking long after they have finished reading it Ulster Tatler