SuitabookSometimes you can go home
Karen Laurence
- Reading
- Read together or check in afterwards about which parts of the family’s situation feel confusing or upsetting. Let the child set the pace for talking about the falling-out, and keep the focus on how the characters experience it.
- Themes
- Family estrangement and reunion: The children learn that their father is estranged from his sister and try to uncover the family’s past and reunite the family. The children’s efforts to understand the family rift and bring the family together are central to the story.
- Worth knowing
- The family conflict involves a father who is estranged from his sister and unwilling to explain why. A reader unsettled by relatives keeping important history private may want support while following the children’s attempts to understand.