A House for Alice

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The new novel from Diana Evans, the prizewinning and much-loved author of Ordinary People *THE INTIMATE AND COMPELLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF ORDINARY PEOPLE* 'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A wise, tender novel' MONICA ALI 'A lyrical and glorious writer' NAOMI ALDERMAN After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her three children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to fray. Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa has never let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, even within the sturdy walls of his marriage to the sparkling Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between Melissa and her sisters, Michael and Nicole, rises to the surface . . . Set against the shadows of Grenfell and a country in turmoil, Diana Evans's ordinary people confront fundamental questions. How should we raise our children? How to do right by our parents? And how, in the midst of everything, can we satisfy ourselves? 'Diana Evans's fiction is emotionally intelligent, dark, funny, moving . . . A brilliant craftswoman' Jackie Kay

Diana Evans is the author of the novels 26a, The Wonder and Ordinary People. She has received nominations for the Whitbread First Novel, the Guardian First Book and the Commonwealth Best First Book awards and was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers. Ordinary People won the 2019 South Bank Sky Arts Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, and also received a nomination for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction. Her journalism appears in Time magazine, the Guardian, Vogue and the Financial Times. She lives in London. www.diana-evans.com

A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers to be savoured for its beautiful language and profound insights into families, relationships and life in contemporary Britain * Bernardine Evaristo * 'Diana Evans's writing is so singular, so arresting, characterful, and so beautiful. A House for Alice is all of those things, and more. Evans is always, always on the finest of forms' * Candice Carty-Williams * A House For Alice is a sharp appraisal of loss. Evans writes deftly about the shifting intimacies between family * Raven Leilani * A wise, tender novel about family and love that explores the tension between duty and desire and the question of what 'home' really means * Monica Ali * A warm but devastating narrative, dealing with the fallout of the Grenfell tragedy... Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable * Harper's Bazaar, *Books to Look Out For 2023* *