Rough Road Home

Rough Road Home is a novel of triumph over mental suffering and failed love in which a young woman’s longing makes her the slave to fantasies and fate. It is the contemporary account of Alice Percey, abandoned as a baby by her mother. This novel flows smoothly through Alice’s young life, the years of turmoil including childhood cataclysms that will later mold, dominate and haunt (in dreams and flashbacks) her adult existence, her brief happiness and the final years of peace and stability. Learning at age twelve of her abandonment and later adoption led, at times, to irate responses to loving acts by others. Alice’s first three attempts at a meaningful relationship with a man failed miserably, leaving her distraught and weary of men, with a daughter to rear alone. Alice later married James Wall—together they turned his real estate job into a giant corporation.