This novel is about homeless guys in Leeds. It really gets the point over of what it is like to have nowhere that you can call your home. This lack of a home alters the whole perspective of the characters in this book. The feeling of being lost within a city and society is very well described. This book showed great promise of showing the other world within our cities and what it is like for the guys involved.
However, as a novel, this book is very disappointing. Although Thomas nicely tells of the misery of the homeless, his story telling skills and writing are very poor.
The story drags along and is about as much fun as waiting for a bus in the rain. It is a dreary tale of no hope, hanging about with other homeless people, drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes. I did not develop an empathy for the characters and there was no real plot to this story as it just muddled along. There was not a lot of action and nothing special happened. The ending was simply a tale of how people eventually move on.
Thomas's writing style is very poor. This book rambles on and on about nothing of great value. The spelling is shocking and nobody has bothered to proof read the text. Time and time again Thomas writes "been" instead of "being". His grammar is childish and the sentences can be over long. There is no structure to this book and without warning he switches from the viewpoint of Clarence to his son Trevor. This is not an easy book to follow as Thomas rambles on from one character to another without a proper break.
I did not enjoy reading Nowhere is Home and found it a drag. It did not live up to it's promise and the bad grammar and spelling really annoyed me. I got no joy from reading this book and it failed to entertain or enlighten me. I will vote this book the minimum score of 1 star as I feel that Secondary school children could do far, far better.
Nowhere is Home is available as a 408 KB Amazon Kindle eBook which was written in 2013.
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