The Distance Home

<p>In 1960s rural America two siblings grow up in a place of love and turmoil.

Rene is the apple of her fathers eye: an over-achiever, athletic, clever, the best brain in class, and the best dancer in school.

Her older brother Leon, doted on by his mother, is shy, a stutterer, but also a brilliant dancer.<br><br>Rene and Leon share a talent, but it is a gift their father adores in his daughter, and loathes in his son.

These two children may be best friends, but life promises to take them down very different paths . . . <br><br><i>The Distance Home</i> is the story of two children growing up side by side - the one given opportunities the other just misses - and the fall-out in their adult lives.

Funny and tragic, both intimate and universal, Paula Saunders debut is about how our parents shape the adults we become.

It is a hugely moving story of devotion and neglect, impossible to put down these are characters you will forever press to your heart.</p>