# Home Leave

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- Book: [Home Leave](https://www.bookquiver.com/libby-purves/home-leave) ([Home Leave.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/libby-purves/home-leave.md))
- Authors: [Libby Purves](https://www.bookquiver.com/libby-purves)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-18-4894-791-7
- Published: 2003-01-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A perceptive novel from our favourite chronicler of the dilemmas of modern family life. Catherine and Caroline, Toby and Mark were globetrotting siblings: British 'diplo-brats', whose childhood homes lay in Italy or Israel, France or Washington DC – wherever their father was posted at the time. But all that was years ago. Now Catherine is approaching middle-age, married to a life of cheeseparing selflessness looking after young offenders on a chilly organic farm; Mark is a prim supermarket executive, Caroline a wealthy Kensington wife, and Toby – well, Toby is a problem. The joker in the pack. He always was. Amid growing tensions, marriage-fatigue and unspoken resentments, the apparent tragedy of Toby's disappearance jolts his sisters and brother into making angry, anxious journeys: from California to Flanders, back in time and into their own hearts.