<div>A missionary&rsquo;s daughter confronts her father&rsquo;s secrets&mdash;and her own life&mdash;in this &ldquo;deeply poetic&rdquo; novel by the award-winning author of Mr. Wroe&rsquo;s Virgins (The Guardian). When her missionary father suddenly dies in Nigeria, thirty-seven-year old school teacher Anne Harrington makes the journey from London to retrieve his body. She decides to take the return voyage by container ship, giving herself time to come to terms with his death. She had no way of knowing what would await her onboard: that she would get involved with two stowaways (clandestinely), and the ship&rsquo;s mate (sexually), and the journey would end in murder. Nor, for that matter, that reading her father&rsquo;s diaries would reveal an illegitimate sibling, whose fate her father was seeking when he died and whom Anne must now attempt to find in order to make peace with herself. In The Voyage Home, Jane Rogers explores the themes of immigration and colonialism in &ldquo;a lusciously written tale, rich in emotional nuance&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly).</div>

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The Voyage Home

<div>A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this &ldquo;engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel&rdquo; based on true events (The New York Times Book Review). A New York Times Notable Book In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told Wroe to find &ldquo;comfort and succour&rdquo; with seven virgins, his followers supplied him their daughters. This is the story of those seven young women&mdash;faithful, cynical, canny, and desperate&mdash;and their charismatic leader, as they move headlong toward the historic trial that brings their household to its dramatic end. With impeccable research into the era and the life of John Wroe, Jane Rogers delivers &ldquo;a compelling story of astonishing depth, elucidating religious idealism, the beginnings of socialism and the ubiquitous position of women as unpaid laborers&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). &ldquo;[Mr. Wroe&rsquo;s Virgins] leaps headlong into the most ambitious and risky territories: faith, love and existential meaning.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;[Rogers] writes better than almost anyone of her generation.&rdquo; &mdash;The Independent on Sunday</div>

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

<div>In this &ldquo;unsettling and resonant novel&rdquo; by the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe&rsquo;s Virgins, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office. The plan is simple. She&rsquo;ll find her mother, demand the answers she&rsquo;s always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, she also meets the brother she never knew she had. Calum may be simple-minded, but he is full of stories&mdash;about his island home, and about Phyllis, the manipulative herbalist who keeps him under her thumb. As Nikki changes her plans to help Calum, all three of their lives begin to unravel in this &ldquo;brooding, furiously powerful tale&rdquo; inspired by Shakspeare&rsquo;s The Tempest (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). &ldquo;[A] caustically memorable literary shocker . . . Fans of Ian McEwan should relish this stylish, charismatic addition to Britain&rsquo;s gallery of antiheroes.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Island

<div>A novel that delves into &ldquo;the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended&rdquo; (Library Journal). What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become? Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to her parents&rsquo; home, marrying her childhood sweetheart, and becoming a mother. Instead, she joins a women&rsquo;s cooperative and becomes a landscape architect. But as her dream and her real life entangle, she must search to find her true self. &ldquo;A splendid and sustained fable for our time.&rdquo; &mdash;Marge Piercy, author of Gone to Soldiers &ldquo;Infinitely subtle delights . . . Her Living Image appeals through its author&rsquo;s gimlet eye for details and the charity with which she dissects her women&rsquo;s lives and choices.&rdquo; &mdash;Time Out &ldquo;Jane Rogers often writes beautifully in her second novel, which consists of two alternate versions of the same character&rsquo;s story . . . There are some delicately lovely passages, especially when Ms. Rogers uses imagery from nature.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times &ldquo;A skillful, intelligent, technically ambitious novel (first published in England, and winner there of the Somerset Maugham Award) about a young woman who creates a fantasy persona that takes on a life of its own . . . All in all, superb writing that is almost never overwhelmed by the underlying political message. No easy feat.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

Her Living Image

<div>The author of Mr. Wroe&#39;s Virgins &ldquo;writes about a woman writing about writing and gets triumphantly away with it . . . a novel of tremendous readability&rdquo; (Independent). Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous hotels, Marion is prepared to do anything to escape her memories. She begins to write stories, stories that take her into other people&rsquo;s lives. But as she is drawn back into her own world, she must face the things that made her long for escape. &ldquo;A brilliant and concentrated piece of writing.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Her style is terse and ruthlessly graphic: her attitude is one of implacable honesty.&rdquo; &mdash;Times Literary Supplement. &ldquo;The writing sings and lives and spins its own magical life.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times</div>

The Ice is Singing

<div>The first novel from the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe&#39;s Virgins and The Voyage Home. Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when she comes to work at the children&rsquo;s home where he lives. She offers him a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and politics of university life, Orph&rsquo;s alienation only grows deeper, and his lonely course has the most desperate of consequences. &ldquo;The writing has a bony strength, the descriptive scenes are compelling though impressionistic, like a documentary screen come true.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;There can be none better than Jane Rogers&rsquo; harsh, lyrical and relentlessly realistic Separate Tracks . . . This is a sad and dramatic story, deeply felt though never stridently written. It is a remarkable first novel, breaking new ground.&rdquo; &mdash;Financial Times &ldquo;Deftly, powerfully done. It deserves to rank with The Collector.&rdquo; &mdash;New Society</div>

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Island

Her Living Image

The Ice is Singing

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Books By Jane Rogers (6 Books)

The Voyage Home

Mr. Wroe's Virgins

Island

Her Living Image

The Ice is Singing

Separate Tracks

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