- Back Roads was the 32nd Oprah Book Club selection and has more than one million copies in print
- Back Roads was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection and spent fifteen weeks on the New York Times bestseller list
- Back Roads has been optioned by Dreamworks for a film to be produced by Todd Field, Oscar nominated director/writer of In the Bedroom
- ISBN10 067089995X
- ISBN13 9780670899951
- Publish Date 28 June 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English