The O of Home

What is home? What does home mean to you? Is it where you come from or where you are now? Just bricks and mortar or something much more significant? Is it a place of sanctuary? Former literary agent Jennifer Kavanagh spent a year asking people what home means to them. Her book The O of Home looks at all aspects of our inner and outer belonging. Family, community, shelter and of course a country to dwell in. A major part of the book is devoted to “Borders and belonging” and displacement: stories of those who do or don’t belong; those for whom home is a distant dream. Throughout the whole book runs an inclusive vision of home that represents our connectedness, and the need to feel at home in ourselves. Home is where we all want to be. www.o-of-home.co.uk

Published by O Books at £11.99. Available from booksellers and on line

 “important reading for anyone who would seek to explore the concept further “

Terry Waite CBE

“This book drew me in… I marvelled at how, again and again, Jennifer takes us with so few and deft words into someone’s life and story.”

Douglas Board, Chair of Trustees, Refugee Council

“this tender and moving book”

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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