The Voyage Home

By Jane Rogers

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Release date: Nov 29, 2005
• ISBN: 9781468307795

Jane Rogers

JANE ROGERS has written eight novels, including Her Living Image (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Mr. Wroe’s Virgins (a Guardian Fiction Prize runner-up), Promised Lands (winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction Book), Island (longlisted for the Orange Prize) and The Voyage Home. She has written drama for radio and TV, including an award-winning adaptation of Mr. Wroe’s Virgins for BBC2. She has taught writing at the University of Adelaide, at Paris Sorbonne IV and on a radio-writing project in eastern Uganda. She is professor of writing at Sheffield Hallam University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Jane lives on the edge of the moors in Lancashire, England. Visit her online at janerogers.org.

Reviews for The Voyage Home

[picardyrose · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

The only thing I like about this book is how clearly it depicts the slide into depression and the crawl out of it.

[mbergman_15 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

After a number of mediocre books, I was looking forward to reading this book by an author whose earlier books, especially Promised Lands & Mr Wroe's Virgins, were excellent. The writing here is as good as ever, and the story--about a Presbyterian missionary to Nigeria and his daughter--figured to appeal to me, but despite quite a bit of psychological intensity, I didn't find this that appealing, largely because the main characters were not appealing and it was hard to care what happened to them.