--- product_id: 15124802 title: "Neverhome" brand: "laird hunt" price: "£13.59" currency: GBP in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15124802-neverhome store_origin: GB region: United Kingdom --- # Neverhome **Brand:** laird hunt **Price:** £13.59 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Neverhome by laird hunt - **How much does it cost?** £13.59 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.uk](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15124802-neverhome) ## Best For - laird hunt enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted laird hunt brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Neverhome - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41YqY++4v7L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A woman's odyssey *by M***O on Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2021* Hunt uses a first-person narrative here to fictionalize women disguising themselves as men to fight in the American Civil War. The narrator is, of course, one of these and, in this case, leaves a husband behind to fight for the United States. Her laconic vernacular is a credit to Hunt and makes for brisk story-telling. It keeps tidy a story that sprawls over months and then years.The narrative covers her time in the army and what follows. She acquits herself admirably as a soldier. But when her fighting ends, she must suffer a long and sometimes brutal journey home. Numerous reviewers have aptly called this a reworking of Homer’s Odyssey; the mythology is evident throughout.As her journey winds down, her admissions begin to call into question her own reliability as a narrator. Still, others bear witness to her heroism. So, like so many, she is complicated, having moments both good and bad. Her apotheosis, so to speak, comes early when a simple, noble act becomes fodder for a song that takes on a life of its own and is sung, like an epic poem, by soldiers who have never met “Gallant Ash.” But her failures come later and who can say if they don’t somehow call down the divine wrath which so often transpires as tragedy?Hunt neatly flips the myth in the obvious way but mirrors it in another, leaving the aftermath of the war more disorienting than the war itself. Regardless, Hunt has written a nice book here that is well worth the time. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ by the time she said good bye, her husband no longer saw her for ... *by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2014* this must be one of the most visceral accounts of the meaning of being a soldier of war that I ever read. It is not long on bloody detail or of gore. Without hyperbole, this account renders the story of how a human being is turned into a soldier. While Ash is in fact a woman, the story is not really a story of feminism. Ash had gone to war instead of her husband because she was strong while he was not. One of them had to serve the Union, so she dressed as a man and left. But long before Ash wandered far from Ohio, she had left herself. In training and drilling for her new role, by the time she said good bye, her husband no longer saw her for herself.Ash remembers the first man she killed in combat. Then little by little she only remembers a litany of orders, followed by her, and blurred to an inhuman machinery. The story of any soldier is whether home can exist again after the world has changed to a universe of killing. The lyrical prose and beautiful writing flows without a touch of flowery hyping. Each minute that she describes can be felt viscerally, and this makes this novel essential in the understanding of the way people come to declare a war and go off to kill. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beautifully unique *by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014* Neverhome is a beautifully written novel with a strong heroine at its heart. The story is told by Ash Thompson, who goes off to fight in the Civil War in the place of her husband. One of the most poetic and lovely first sentences begins the book, and is a statement at the core of the story: "I was strong and he was not, so it was me went to war to defend the Republic." As the story progresses, nearer the end, when Ash reminisces about her husband, she recalls him as wearing French perfume, so it seems almost as if their gender roles were somehow reversed, which seemed to satisfy them both and did not appear strange to either of them. It apparently suited them both. This book has such wonderful prose, that alone would make it worth reading, even if there were not such a meaningful story to be told about an important piece of American history and a different way of telling about the role of women soldiers who fought in that war. Ash sees the war in all its horror and is braver and more skilled at fighting than many of the men who fight beside her. There is no weakness to her and she never considers revealing herself to elicit pity or special considerations. She fights as a man, but uses her gender as necessary as a weapon and to her best advantage. A wonderful book that I will not soon forget! --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15124802-neverhome](https://www.desertcart.co.uk/products/15124802-neverhome) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Kingdom* *Store origin: GB* *Last updated: 2026-05-03*