![]() ![]() “ It’s shit,” said Lev… “I understand you now. ![]() “ I think it’s brilliant,” said Sophie… “it’s radical and brave and – ” For example, when Lev goes to see an experimental new play that features a character who watches child pornography, he thinks it’s ‘ disgusting’ and gets into an argument with his girlfriend, Sophie, about it: For much of the novel, Lev is positioned as a neutral social observer, and Tremain often seems to be using him (as well as some of the other characters that he meets) as a mouthpiece for the things she wants to say about the weirdnesses and excesses of English society. ![]() It follows Lev, an immigrant from a nameless Eastern European country, as he struggles to make a life for himself in England while sending money home to his mother and his young daughter. Rose Tremain’s The Road Home won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2008. I’m taking part in the Women’s Prize for Fiction’s #ReadingWomen challenge, aiming to read all 24 previous winners of the Women’s Prize before the autumn. ![]()
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