Home, Matthew Costello
Home, Matthew Costello
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Home

Author: Matthew Costello

Narrator: Meredith Mitchell

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2014

Synopsis

Besieged and attacked, a mother and her children must escape a postapocalyptic nightmare world of cannibals and betrayal.Jack Murphy thought he'd found the perfect escape for his family from a world gone horribly mad. He thought wrong. Matthew Costello's Home begins mere minutes after the terrible sacrifice Jack made to save his family at Paterville Camp in Vacation. Barely escaping, Jack's wife, Christie, and two children, Kate and Simon, must accept that their lives and their future have changed forever.In this intimate and human survivalist horror story, the three of them will face even greater dangers, as well as yet-unknown horrors, to simply stay alive as together they search for a road "home" in this intense and original postapocalyptic thriller.

About Matthew Costello

Matt Costello’s award-winning and bestselling work—across all media—has meshed story, gameplay and technology.His novels, spanning genres, have been published all around the world. His classic horror novel, Beneath Still Waters, was filmed by Lionsgate. His novel Vacation was a major release from Macmillan, who also released the sequel, Home, as well as his epic SF novel, Star Road. He cocreated and coauthors, with Neil Richards, the hit mystery series Cherringham, which has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. With Neil Dudgeon (Midsomer Murders) reading, the series has become a bestselling audio series, also with over 700,000 sales. Cherringham has also been sold globally, in many languages. His latest series with Neil Richards, set in 1929—Mydworth Mysteries—has also quickly become a bestseller, with Wolf Hall actor Nathaniel Parker performing the audiobooks.He has also written and designed dozens of award-winning and bestselling games including The 7th Guest, G-Force, Aladdin, Just Cause 1&2, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Time magazine said of Doom 3, which he scripted, “The story is delivered with unusual art.” Rage, which Matt also wrote, won the most Game Critics Awards at E3, including Best Console Game’. He continues to write and help create groundbreaking games worldwide, most recently the interactive film Planet of the Apes: Last Frontier. This March brought the release of Resident Evil 4 2023, one of the most anticipated games of the year, scripted by Matt, which sold 4 million copies in its first two weeks.Matt has also written episodes and created TV formats for PBS, Disney, SyFy, and the BBC. He consults on story, creativity, games and multiplatform projects around the world.

About Meredith Mitchell

Meredith Mitchell is an actress who has performed in such films as Mona Lisa Smile and The Reunion, on stage with Shakespeare & Company and the New Repertory Theatre, and on television on Good Morning America. She received her BA in psychology from Emory University and her MFA in acting from Brandeis University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erin on December 28, 2012

Even though I didn't love the first book in this duology, Vacation, I felt compelled to read the sequel. Christie and her two children escape the Paterville Camp and drive back to Staten Island only to discover that the power has gone out in their housing development, leaving them vulnerable to the......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on December 15, 2015

Only a slight better than it's predecessor; "Home" literally takes place seconds after "Vacation" ends. Even though the story is pretty much the the same (a family trying to survive a zombie apocalypse, and getting screwed over in the process) somehow, the story managed to catch my attention a littl......more

Goodreads review by Kristin on November 14, 2012

You may also read my review here: [URL not allowed] Home opens right where Vacation left off. Actually it opens up a little bit sooner in order to remind the reader just how much of a tragic disaster the ending of Vacation was. By that I mean our hero in the first book, Jack Mu......more

Quotes

“Costello creates a sense of urgency and fatigue as Christie tries to protect her family. He wastes no time with extraneous detail but keeps the pages turning with action and emotion that rings true. Readers need not have read the previous book, as this one works well by itself, but those who enjoy it will probably turn to more from the author.” Library Journal

“The book is a neat twist on the zombie theme, and the story moves at a brisk clip, with plenty of mayhem.” Booklist

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