Coming Home by Jan Fortune

Fourth novel from editor and writer Jan Fortune

A powerful evocation of the havoc caused by one man’s dreams and failings.

Coming Home covers a day in the lives of Jim and the women he loves and lets down; the day when Jim returns to his abandoned Welsh family, leaving Consuela, his Filipino lover, to face pregnancy and an uncertain future.

On the day Jim returns, memories unfold that range across locations from North Wales and the demise of the slate industry in the 1970s to a desalination plant in Algeria and the cities of Manila and Baguio in the Philippines; from the 1940s to the 1990s.

Against a backdrop of abandonment, betrayal, loss and continued mutual destruction between Jim and his wife, Cath, new life emerges as Jim’s daughter, Megan, and his lover, Consuela, each make their own discoveries about acceptance and transformation.

Jan Fortune- is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press and also teaches creative writing. Her books include novels, A Good Life, Dear Ceridwen, The Standing Ground and and poetry, Particles of Life and Stale Bread and Miracles, a prose poetry collection which she recently performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. She is currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through the landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ Schrödinger, and a novel that ranges across three generations and two continents exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, I’m Still Here.