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Run for the Hills

A road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here.

Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it’s just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. It’s mostly okay. Maybe sometimes a bit lonely. Then one day a stranger pulls up in a rental car and informs Madeline that he’s her half brother, Reuben, abandoned by their dad thirty years ago. Reuben has hired a detective to track down their father, along with a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to join him on a cross-country road trip to find them all.

As Mad and Rube and eventually the others share stories of their father, they realise he behaved quite differently in all of his lives, and begin to question what he was looking for each time. What kind of man will they find? Who are they to one another? And how will these new relationships change Mad’s previously solitary life on the farm? Infused with deadpan wit and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a family saga like no other—a novel about a family forged in unlikely circumstances, united by hope in an unknown future.

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Kevin Wilson
About the Author

Kevin Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Nothing to See Here, as well as the novels The Family Fang, Perfect Little World, and Now Is Not the Time to Panic, and the short-story collections Tunneling to the Center of the Earth and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine. He lives with his family in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he is an...

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Extent:
256pp
Format:
Paperback
Text publication date:
13 May 2025
ISBN:
9781923058347
AU Price:
$34.99
NZ Price:
$38.00
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Praise for Kevin Wilson
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‘A touching and generous romp of a novel.’

‘Few writers can match [Kevin Wilson’s] trademark blend of wit, wonder, and tenderness…Kevin Wilson’s new novel moves from madcap to heart wrenching with ease, proving once again that no one can create a family drama like him.’

‘Kevin Wilson writes funny, smart, weird novels about lost people trying to find and keep connections with one another and reality…his stories are never short of compelling. Run for the Hills is no exception…’

‘[Kevin Wilson] writes beautiful, searching, unexpected and yes—weird—books. They’re utterly suffused with love and affection for the world and for his lost characters.’

‘Adventurous, a little bit absurd, and always from the heart.’

‘Wilson is positively masterful at quirky family dramas.’

‘My golden rule is that if Kevin Wilson is writing it, I’m reading it. I could read his grocery list and still feel a punch to the gut…[Run for the Hills] is no exception.’

‘Features [Kevin Wilson’s] quirkiness and heart.’

‘An often hilarious and sometimes devastating exploration of what really makes a family…Gently tugs at the heart.’

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