Homecoming [Hardcover]

Catrin Collier (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2005

It is January 1957 and Helen's husband Jack returns from National Service. Happy to be reunited, they resume their life together with their friends. Then Helen is utterly shattered when Jack tells her that a brief fling with a sergeant's widow has left the woman pregnant. Helen can't have children, so this is more than she can bear. She starts divorce proceedings, but their fierce love for each other cannot be extinguished. Finally she has to make a decision which requires courage, but could be the answer to their differences.

Editorial Reviews

Review

EVENTS:March and April will see Catrin Collier criss-crossing Wales with a series of signing events to promote HOMECOMING. Catrin will be visiting a number of stores including: WHSMITH Merthyr Tydfil, WHSMITH Pontypridd (twice), WHSMITH Llanelli, WHSMITH Caerphilly, WHSMITH Swansea, THE NEITH BOOKSHOP, THEPORTHCAWL BOOKSHOP, THE ABERGAVENNY BOOKSHOP, THE MONMOUTH BOOKSHOP, THE WELLFIELD BOOKSHOP (Cardiff), MERLINS BOOKSHOP (Newport), OTTAKARS Aberbavenny and OTTAKARS Carmarthan, WATERSTONES Cardiff and WATERSTONES Swansea. Catrin will be signing copies of HOMECOMING and the other titles in the Swansea trilogy at the opening of the new BORDERS in Swansea on 14 March, and before this will be at OXFAM in Swansea for their Fairtrade and Red Nose Day event day. Catrin will also being talking at Llandeilo Library on 28 February, and at theAmman Valley writers workshop on 8 March 03. NEWSPAPERS:Catrin Collier is being interviewed by WALES ON SUNDAY, SOUTH WALES EVENING POST, SOUTH WALES ECHO and the KENT MESSENGER GROUP and so far reviews of HOMECOMING have been confirmed in SOUTH WALES ARGUS, CARDIFF POST SERIES, CAMBRIA (the national magazine for Wales) and ONEWALES. THE SUN may be interested in a health feature with Catrin. Tbc. MAGAZINES:CHOICE MAGAZINE will be featuring an interview withCatrin Collier in their April 03 edition and WRITING MAGAZINE are also publishing an interview with Catrin in their June/July issue - out in May. RADIO:Catrin referred to her interview on BBC Radio NEWCASTLE's Julia Hankin Show on12 March 03 as "probably the best I've had in ten years of book promotion". She will be interviewed on BBC Radio KENT's Jonathan Witchell show on Mother's Day (30 March 03) and HOMECOMING will be 'Book of the Week' on The Arts Programme, BBC Radio CAMBRIDGESHIRE, this will include a competition. Reviewed in PLANET: THE WELSH INTERNATIONALIST 'An engrossing novel'RUGBY EVENING TELEGR --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Catrin Collier was born and brought up in Pontypridd. She worked for a while in Europe and America before returning to her native Wales. She now lives on the Gower Peninsula near Swansea, with her family.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Orion Publishing (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0752853112
• ISBN-13: 978-0752853116
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,282,541 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

CATRIN COLLIER/KATHERINE JOHN/CARO FRENCH/KATHERINE HARDY -
My most bemused moment. When someone commented, "It will be wonderful for Pontypridd when you die." (Many of my novels are set in the town)
My best "putting in place moment". When someone joined a queue at a signing session in Waterstones and waited ten minutes to say, "I don't want a book, love, but as you're here for two hours, look after my shopping for me." - I did.
My proudest moment, when I discovered my Catrin Collier novel, One Last Summer, based on my Prussian born mother's wartime diaries was named recommended reading for adults by the Holocaust Day Memorial Trust.
My new novel, Bobby's Girl, set in America during in 1968 - the era of the anti-Vietnam War and, Civil Rights movements and student protests will be published in the autumn of 2011.