How welcome and true: late love, beautifully and wryly rendered. Both light hearted and insightful, with age-defying charm and wit, The Road Towards Home is a totally satisfying (and identifiable!) read. Elinor Lipman, author of Ms. Demeanor and Rachel to the Rescue
Corinne Demas is amazing! The Road Towards Home is about two opinionated, rigid, and, yes, curmudgeonly septuagenarians who will have you falling in love and rooting for them as they negotiate and argue their way to a last run at happiness. Noah and Cassandra are so believable that Im certain Ive been over at their house for dinnerand the dialogue between them made me laugh out loud and also shake my head at their stubbornness. I utterly adored this novel, which is filled with wisdom and generosity and heart, qualities that readers of all ages will appreciate. Maddie Dawson, bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners
When Noah (saved the world with a boat) meets Cassandra (sees the future way too clearly) at the aptly named Clarion retirement home, they are both seriously not getting with the program. Though barely acquainted, they agree to escape together. As they break free from the planned trajectory and plunge into the uncharted territory of each other, youll be rooting for the oldsters all the way. The Road Towards Home is a wonderful novelengaging, wry, and genuinely touching. Valerie Martin, author of Property and I Give It To You
In the novel The Road Towards Home, feisty entomologist Cassandra Joyce, who has been married multiple times, moves to a senior-living community. Quickly, she finds Clarion Court is not her clarion call. So, too, does widower Professor Noah Shilling, whose son and daughter-in-law are behind his relocation. When Cassandra drives Noah to his summer cottage on Cape Cod, theres a lifetime of baggage to be unpacked. Kudos to Corinne Demasheralded author of thirty books for children, teens, and adultsfor this late-in-life romance: a story that shows both love and friendship can be found where and when least expectedand most necessary. Cassandra and Noah will open your mindand your heartto finding love at any stage of life. Uniquely uplifting. Marilyn Simon Rothstein, author of Crazy to Leave You
This latest novel by the always wonderful Corinne Demas is about a growing relationship through the hiccups of aging. The two main characters are both fascinating and thoughtful people. He an English professor emeritus, she a bug-and-spider scientist plus bird-watcher. The home of the title is rather two homes: the first where they remeet (they knew one another in college some fifty years in the past), and the second Noahs rather charming but broken-down cottage on a Cape Cod marsh, a great metaphor for the two of them. They are both wise and wisecrackers, both loving and snarky. And I, at eighty-three, sat up half the night finishing the book. Its that good. Jane Yolen, award-winning author of The Devils Arithmetic and the short story collection The Scarlet Circus
