Home by Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone

Steve’s wife, Fran, is dying. In her wisdom Fran suggests that Steve take a job as caretaker at the local care home, where he can forget his heartache in hard work. Alexa, the hard-edged manager, makes it clear that the caretaker must on no account enter the basement, and at first Steve keeps his head down and quietly goes about his duties. But as Fran’s condition worsens and his relationship with his only son becomes more distant, Steve begins to uncover dark secrets at his workplace. As Steve grows closer to Milos, the young male nurse, he makes a shocking discovery that he cannot put out of his mind. It inspires him to play detective – with disastrous consequences. Home is a dark, suspenseful yet moving story that poses important questions about how we deal with the old and what it means to be forgotten. If you’re lucky, you are going to live a long enough life that you’ll reach a ripe old age. When you get there, the only thing you can hope for is that during your twilight years you are treated with a level of respect and a certain amount of dignity. There is a chance however,…