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The Way Back Home

by Freya North

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First published: 2014
Pages: 300

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Freya North's The Way Back Home brings Oriana Taylor back to the Yorkshire village she grew up in, after years away in America. The reasons for her return are partly practical and partly the kind of personal reckoning the genre handles well. The childhood friends she left behind have their own grown-up complications.

North is good at the social texture of the small village. The pub, the parish, the people who have known each other since school and still treat each other accordingly. Oriana's outsider-now-returned position lets the reader see the place from both sides.

The romance threads weave through the broader story without dominating. The ending lands without feeling forced.

For readers who like Cathy Kelly or Marian Keyes in their warmer mode, this is in adjacent territory. Comfortable reading with real emotional depth. North has a substantial backlist worth exploring if this one lands well.

About the author

Freya North

Freya North writes British novels whose narratives repeatedly link relationships with carefully observed places and family histories. Chances, published by Harper in 2011, brings Vita and tree surgeon Oliver together while both are carrying unresolved losses.