The Homecoming

By Anna Enquist, Eileen J. Stevens (translator),

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Book description

An internationally bestselling, award-winning novel peering deep into the passions, losses, and reveries of the wife of eighteenth-century explorer Captain James Cook.

After twelve years of marriage to English explorer James Cook, Elizabeth has yet to spend an entire year with her husband. In their house by the Thames, she…

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1 author picked The Homecoming as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is a refreshingly new take on a familiar story. We know about the heroic voyages of Captain Cook to the other side of the globe, and the contributions he made to science and exploration.
The Home Coming tells the other side of the story: what it was like for the wife he left behind. His fame makes Elizabeth something of a public figure herself. Yet her husband comes home every two or three years, and then departs again, leaving her to cope alone with the deaths of their children and yet another pregnancy.
We feel for her loneliness and…

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