10 Top family books like A Way Home by Emily Brewin

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A Way Home

By: Emily Brewin

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe…

If you liked the family plot in A Way Home by Emily Brewin , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • family
  • contemporary
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2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. Devotion

By: Hannah Kent

3.87

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Prussia, 1836. Hanne is nearly fifteen and the domestic world of womanhood is quickly closing in on… read more

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"Dying is unlike living. The smooth running of time is for the beating heart only. The dead stutter. The hands on my clock do not turn to numbers but to each other."

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

"Thea, in all incarnations, wherever my soul has resided, I have loved you, am loving you, will love you. If the earth one day burns out its charge, you will find me in the ash. if the sea dries, find…"

-Hannah Kent, Devotion

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4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

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5. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
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6. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
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7. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
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8. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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9. Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer

By: Amy Doak

3.69

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Eleanor Jones has just started at her ninth high school in less than five years. Since she and her … read more

Similar categories in Amy Doak's Eleanor Jones is Not a Murderer book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Let’s Never Speak of This Again

By: Megan Williams

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more

Similar categories in Megan Williams's Let’s Never Speak of This Again book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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11. Those Girls

By: Pamela Rushby

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

New, from award-winning historical novelist, Pamela Rushby, exploring the roles, and struggles, of … read more

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12. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

Similar categories in Anna Downes's Red River Road book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
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13. Blind Spot

By: Robyn Dennison

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When Dale stumbles into a bedroom at a party and sees a drunk girl being undressed by a group of gu… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Dennison's Blind Spot book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
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14. To Sing of War

By: Catherine McKinnon

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the Miles Franklin Award shortlisted Storyland, comes a rich, layered and thrill… read more

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15. We Didn't Think It Through

By: Gary Lonesborough

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of the award-winning The Boy from the Mish, comes a compelling coming-of-age YA nov… read more

Similar categories in Gary Lonesborough's We Didn't Think It Through book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. The Deed

By: Susannah Begbie

4.12

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A a body wr… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Begbie's The Deed book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

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17. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • family
  • contemporary
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18. Birdy

By: Sharon Kernot

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Maddy is mute. Since the Incident she has barely spoken. And now she and her mother and brother are… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Kernot's Birdy book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
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19. Wrong Answers Only

By: Tobias Madden

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marco's always done the right thing. But now it's time for wrong answers only.Marco should be at un… read more

Similar categories in Tobias Madden's Wrong Answers Only book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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20. Gus and the Missing Boy

By: Troy Hunter

4.30

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

True crime buff Gus Green has always felt out of place in the world. He's overweight, gay, his inju… read more

Similar categories in Troy Hunter's Gus and the Missing Boy book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
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21. We Could Be Something

By: Will Kostakis

3.97

Format: 401 pages, Paperback

Part Coming-Out Story. Part falling-in-love story. Part falling-apart story. Harvey's dads… read more

Similar categories in Will Kostakis's We Could Be Something book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
"Right now, I'm not sure I can get a book about a gay teenager through acquisitions. The schools market factors heavily into our thinking and they won't let it fly."

-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something

"Just because you released one novel doesn't mean you're owed a career, Sotiris. That isn't how the book world works. There are so many names I only ever see on one title."

-Will Kostakis, We Could Be Something

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22. One By One They Disappear

By: Mike Lucas

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

One girl. Two identities. Three friends. One disappears. One forgets. One remembers. There is tru… read more

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23. Dirrayawadha

By: Anita Heiss

4.16

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the bestselling author of Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray (River of Dreams) comes a sweeping new h… read more

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24. Girl Falling

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Girl Falling book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
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25. A Way Home

By: Emily Brewin

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe… read more

Similar categories in Emily Brewin's A Way Home book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • contemporary
  • young adult
  • family
  • mental health
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26. The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4)

By: Chris Hammer

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.Nell Buchanan … read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4) book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

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27. In the Margins

By: Gail Holmes

4.17

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

We are the spaces between the words.    Inspired by a real person, In the Margins is the story o… read more

Similar categories in Gail Holmes's In the Margins book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

  • family
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28. The Burrow

By: Melanie Cheng

4.10

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A wise and moving story about a family navigating grief, hope, and healing through a bond with a ne… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Cheng's The Burrow book and Emily Brewin's A Way Home

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29. For Everything a Time

By: Mark McAvaney

4.12

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After… read more

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30. Dusk

By: Robbie Arnott

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

In the distant highlands, a puma named Dusk is killing shepherds. Down in the lowlands, twins Iris … read more

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31. Everywhere We Look

By: Martine Kropkowski

3.51

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Three friends travel to Marcoy, a regional town for a weekend away from family life. One year ago, … read more

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4.07

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Jane Tara

4.02

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Fiona Lowe

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