Blurb:
Living separately for three years, fourteen-year-old twins, Katherine
and Tommy Arthur, have done their best to make each boarding house feel like
home. But unrest grows as they are driven to questionable actions just to
survive. Meanwhile their desperate mother is confronted with breaking yet
another promise to her children. Then a miracle descends. Hope rises on a cold,
rainy night and changes everything. If Jeanie could just get word to Katherine
and Tommy, she knows she can set their lives right again. Agitators, angels,
and dangerous “saviors” illuminate the Arthurs’ unmatched determination and
smarts. 1905—Though she tries to forget the awful years that hurt so much, the
memories still haunt Katherine. Now, tearful mourners at her mother’s funeral
force her to revisit a time in her life that both harmed and saved her in the
most unexpected ways. Tommy grieves his mother’s passing as well. He too is
thrust backward, compelled to rediscover the events in his life that shaped the
man he has become. Will he commit to reconstructing his broken life? The
Arthurs come to understand that forgiveness is the only way back to hope, the
only way to find all that was good in the misfortune that transformed their
lives forever.
Review by Marlene Engel
In the highly anticipated sequel to The Last Letter, The Road Home follows
the relationship between Jeanie Arthur and her children, Katherine and
Tommy. Set in the turn of the nineteenth
to twentieth centuries, this book is about life, love, struggle and hope.
Raising her children alone, Jeanie has to make some difficult decisions
to ensure that both of her children are being cared for. However, at that time there were limited
options and she had to do what she felt was best for her family. Even if that meant her children were to be
separated and sent to other homes. We
follow each of their lives, learn the struggles and pain they had to endure and
watch as they find strength where they thought none was to be found.
An amazing book for historical fiction lovers. The Road Home will have you on the edge of
your seat in anticipation of what’s going to happen next.
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About the Author:
Bestselling author Kathleen Shoop holds a PhD in
reading education and has more than 20 years of experience in the classroom.
Her third novel, Love and Other Subjects, earned a Silver
medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and received an Honorable
Mention from the San Francisco Book Festival. Her second novel, After
the Fog (Silver IPPY), was a
category finalist in the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Her debut novel, The
Last Letter, is a multiple award-winner, including a Gold Medal in the
Independent Publisher Book Awards.
Kathleen
has been featured in USA Today and
the Writer’s
Guide to 2013. Her work has appeared in The Tribune-Review, four Chicken
Soup for the Soul books, and Pittsburgh
Parent magazine. She lives in
Oakmont, Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
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