The Journey Home

As women have expanded their roles in society, they have grown as readers, giving rise to a body of contemporary women's fiction that is more than the traditional romance. This is fiction about women and their roles in all the parts of their lives.The moving story of a woman who, in the remaining months of her life, undertakes an extraordinary emotional journey. With enormous sensitivity, the author carries the reader with Disa on her quietly heroic journey back to the village in Iceland where she was born. As she goes north, events she has spent most of her life trying to forget are slowly revealed. And only now can she attempt to find a resolution in the consequences that have marked her forever.