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Home at Last is a tale of love and passion, of love thwarted by hidden resentments, of the process of healing and reconciliation, and of new beginnings, rebirth. Naana, an African girl growing up in Europe, searches for her identity. Her whole world turns up-side down when she learns the truth about herself. She returns to Africa in the hope of re-establishing her identity, and comes face to face with the mother she had not known existed, until a few weeks before, languishing in a psychiatric hospital where she had been a patient for many years. What happens afterwards will change mother's whole life. How do mother and daughter, now reunited, come to terms with themselves, and with those around them? How do they cope with the new challenges, as Naana finds new and enduring love?

Sam Aryeetey is a film producer, director, editor and screenwriter. He was born in 1927 and attended the first film school in Accra in 1948. He edited many films, including one on Ghana's independence celebrations, Freedom for Ghana. He produced and directed Ghana's first feature film, No Tears for Ananse in 1965. He was for many years the Managing Director of the Ghana Film Industry Corporation. He is a founding father of the National Film and Television Institute (NAFTI), Ghana. In 1985, he won the Ghana Book Award for Literature with his sociological novel, Harvest of Love. Home at Last is his third novel.