Disappearing Home

Disappearing Home by Morgan, Deborah. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781906994327.

An unsentimental, beautifully written, Raymond Carver-esque tale of a childhood in jeopardy From her parents 1970s tenement home Robyn soon becomes so skilled at shoplifting that her reputation spreads. She takes her punishment at school, but is much more scared of the vicious threats of her father; and as frightened for her mothers safety as for her own. Her fun-loving grandmother offers her comfort, wisdom, and hope that Robyn might be different from her parents. As her fathers random cruelty intensifies, she has to seek refuge in her grandmothers home and in the homes of friends, even joining her mother in a womens shelter, all the time learning more about the unpredictable ways of the people around her and her own potential. Shell need all of this precocious wisdom and the assistance of her grandma to face up once and for all to the twisted violence in her home and engineer a way out of this childhood to reach a place of safety and freedom.