All The Way Home | Anthology

 Review of All the Way Home - Rock Trust Anthology

Genre - Anthology [ Poems, short stories,Essays]

Blurb:

Rock Trust is Scotland’s youth-specific homelessness charity. Their aim is to end youth homelessness in Scotland by ensuring that every young person has access to expert youth specific services to assist them to avoid, survive and move on from homelessness. They advise, educate and support young people to enable them to build the personal skills and resources required to make a positive and healthy transition to adulthood. They also work to ensure that the public, policy makers, commissioners and practitioners understand the issues, make decisions and take action which will end youth homelessness. Find out more here.


Celebrating 30 years of Rock Trust, Scotland’s only charity committed to tackling youth homelessness, All the Way Home is an anthology of writing by both young people and established writers, including Kirstin Innes. Across poetry, fiction and personal accounts, the idea of ‘home’ is explored from a variety of perspectives: a thirteen year-old girl comes to terms with her unplanned pregnancy; a social worker takes a young orphan in search of his relatives; a group of immigrants from all across the world meet at a weekly Creative Writing class in Glasgow to discuss haiku. Together, this astonishing collection brings to life both the visible and invisible realities of home and homelessness, of family and belonging.

50% of all profits go directly to Rock Trust.

My Review:

This book is a compilation of stories and poems. They are so powerful and full of emotions. It shows us the raw deal of being homeless and having nowhere to turn.

By the end of the book, I was so touched and moved and in tears. It made me look back on the life I had and also be grateful for all that I have now.

It was hard knowing that kids had to leave the home for whatever reason or were rendered homeless and the struggles they had to go through! I can’t even imagine the hardships they went through!

I felt this book should be read by everyone especially the youth so that they can understand the realities of life and be appreciative of the life they now lead and learn some real-life lessons.