Product Description

Sharla Cody is only five but has already had a troubled life. Then she finds herself dumped with an elderly neighbour when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look after her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy's surprise, Sharla's presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled by fugitive slaves in the mid-1800s. In the spirit of White Oleander and The Color Purple, this is a story about the redeeming power of love and memory, and about two unlikely people who transform each other's lives forever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128866 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Review
'A first novel of exquisite power, honesty and conviction. It's portrait of how much has changed, and how little, over nearly a century, in the realms of race, love, hate and loss, is quite nearly without flaws' Jacquelyn Mitchard

Sunday Express
‘Absolutely wonderful’

About the Author
Lori Lansens has written several screenplays as well as the international best-seller THE GIRLS. She lives in Canada.

Customer Reviews

Rush Home Road
An absolutely cracking read! The story is sad, funny, and utterly believable. The book deals with undedrlying racial, physical, and mental abuse of the two main characters in the book, but it is all done in a very sensitive way.

The book made me laugh, cry, but most of all kept me page-turning until the end. As a debut novel for this author, I can only say, what comes next.

rush home and read
This is a beautifully written book. Rush home road centres around the world of a woman called Addy Shadd who at the age of seventy is left to look after a boisterous mouthy five year old, Sharla Cody, after she is abandoned into her care by her mother. Thw books storyline is split between the trailer park where the two currently reside, and the seventy years of Addy's tumolous life, both sentimental and powerful. Growing up as a black female in the U.S the book deals with issues such as racism rape and murder and there devastating consequences but also shows that some people do triumph in the face of adversity. It's a tale of the survival of a woman who had to fight through no fault of her own, and the way in which the oddest most unlikely relationships can grow. It is ultimately a book full of hope, wonderfully thought out, thoroughly touching, thought provoking and also terribly heartbreaking. be prepared with a box of tissues because you will cry more than once. Although not just with sadness but with joy, laughter, sympathy and recognition

Outstanding
I picked this book up on a whim & was entranced from the first. The language is beautiful, the story is well-told & moves easily from past to present. An abused & abandoned child is left with a 70 year old neighbour with a troubled history herself, and the story told is one of the redeeming power of love & the strength of the human spirit. Though it sounds cliched as I write it it really is a lovely book & certainly an accomplishment for a first novel. I loved it.