Marilynne Robinson's third novel, Home, a companion piece to her Puliter prize-winning novel Gilead, won the Orange this week. In it, she returns to the town of Gilead and the story of the Boughton family, tracing the return of two adult siblings, Jack and Glory, to their father's house, after different but similarly difficult experiences in the outside world.
Here, she reads from the novel and talks about the relationship between the two books, why she prefers to write from a historical perspective and why, in her novels, religion takes centre-stage.
