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Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone
Born in Kenya, I now live and work in Bethnal Green. I co-founded Tales of the DeCongested, a monthly short story reading event held at Foyles Bookshop in Charing Cross Road, am a partner of Apis Books, an independent publishing company for shorter fiction, and teach creative writing at City University. Home, published by Social Disease, is my first novel.
‘Dark, perverse, convincing and compassionate - Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone.’s Home is an extremely strong first novel.’ Toby Litt
What does it mean to be at home: in our own country, in our own family, in our own skin?
A woman wakes up in a care home unable to remember who she is. Despite numerous visitors, all claiming her as their relative, she recognises no one. Will she reclaim her memory before it is too late?
The resident nurse at the home, Milos, uses his work as inspiration for his photography, hoping England will provide a better climate for his artistic talents than his native Montenegro. But when he starts a relationship with the homeowner’s daughter, heedless of his wife and child back home, will his libido prove his undoing?
The caretaker, Steve, is dealing with the death of his wife, but the longer he works at the home, the more he begins to question its integrity. Why would a care home need an industrial-sized incinerator? Will his investigations put him in danger?
The novel is illustrated with images by the artist Katherine Jones @ 2008.
Home is published by Social Disease Books