Lori Lansens

I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon....

When Addy Shadd was a young girl living in Rusholme, she was taught the history of her town, which was settled by fugitive slaves...

On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads....

On the anniversary of the day his best friend, Byrd, had a tragic accident on the mountain that had been the boys' paradise and escape, Wolf Truly reaches for the summit again....

Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2007.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read, 2007.
A Richard and Judy Book Club selection.
In 29 years, Rose Darlen has never spent a moment apart from her conjoined twin sister, Ruby...

Heartbreaking and wise, Rush Home Road tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd, who finds redemption in old age, and Sharla, a five-year-old mixed race girl abandoned to Addy’s care by her white mother....