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Rose Tremain: The Road Home (abridged)

Read by Juliet Stevenson

You know you’re in safe hands with a writer as professional as Rose Tremain – this won the 2008 Orange prize – and a reader as sympathetic as Juliet Stevenson. — The Guardian
  • Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
  • Catalogue No: NA694612
  • Label: Naxos AudioBooks
  • Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

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Rose Tremain: The Road Home (Abridged)

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  • Recording Venue: Motivation Sound Studios, London

On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back…

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Towards 10 o'clock red blankets were given out…

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By the time the coach crossed the border…

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Lev took out his vodka flask and drank…

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The coach pulled into Victoria at nine in the morning…

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Lev woke when someone touched his shoulder…

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Reproaching himself for his laziness…

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It was already afternoon.

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Lev thanked Ahmed again for the free food…

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By late afternoon, and with all the leaflets…

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When Lev woke up…

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It was still early in the morning…

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As Lev sat down on one of the leather sofas…

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Soon after this, a church clock…

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With Lydia's help, Lev found a job…

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The bathroom was painted white…

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GK Ashe wasn't the way Lev had imagined him…

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The London heatwave lasted a long time…

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Cold autumn arrived without warning…

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When the temperature in London had dropped…

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Inside the auditorium…

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On Monday evening…

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When Lev got home to Belisha Road…

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Christy was trying to stay sober…

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Sophie's friend Samantha was bone thin…

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He found himself standing next to Andy Portman…

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The English winter began to bite…

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He let himself be led…

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On Christmas morning, Lev woke up…

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Lev and Sophie helped in the kitchen…

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He dressed and lit a cigarette…

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On the morning before the restaurant reopened…

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He set up the spinach colander…

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Lev looked at the boy…

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With the New Year, mild weather arrived…

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Suddenly, without warning…

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A text from Lydia came to Lev's mobile…

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At work that evening…

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When he got up…

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It rained on Sunday morning…

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In the noise and deep darkness of the Royal Court Theatre…

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Lev turned back to face the stage…

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Preece, whose single diamond earring glittered…

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Not to think about it.

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He was led into a police station…

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Lev was back on the plastic chair in the corridor…

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It was after one o'clock when Lev dragged himself…

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GK Ashe was waiting in the kitchen for Lev…

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Lev sat on the rough grass…

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Lev heard the door bell ringing…

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'Midge' Midgham brought the old Land Rover round…

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Lev didn't mind sharing the leaky old caravan…

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Midge Midgham invited Lev to his house…

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Lev waited. He sat down on the cold grass…

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To be, or not to be…

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Early the following morning…

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He woke in his own bed…

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A Greek friend of Christy Slane's known as 'Panno'…

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On a Monday afternoon…

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GK's features froze…

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It was a while before Lev was allowed to meet Jasmina…

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The following morning he did what he always did…

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The line was cut.

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Lev looked round at the small space…

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The kitchen at Ferndale Heights stank…

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Ruby closed the album and asked Lev to tell her…

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Back in Auror nothing had moved forward…

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One morning when Lev arrived at Ferndale Heights…

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Lev flew home in the middle of winter…

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After a while Rudi began to ask questions…

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On the first evening, they decided to have dinner…

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On the day they left Auror forever…

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Lev went to Eva's bed.

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Lev's restaurant opened in deep winter.

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Then, in the early summer…

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