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''A stunning multi-generational kaleidoscope of London'' Bernardine Evaristo ''A wise, tender novel about family and love'' Monica Ali Melissa and her sisters are in conflict. After fifty years in London, their mother wants to return home to Nigeria, leaving behind a web of resentments and secrets lately disturbed by the sudden demise of their father. Should Alice stay here, or can her daughters work together to grant her wish? Meanwhile Melissa has never quite let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, even while married 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 siblings, Michael and Nicole, rises to the surface . . . ''Heart and humour in abundance . . . The people on the page are real and raw'' The Times ''So arresting, characterful, and so beautiful'' Candice Carty-Williams ''I adored it. Her writing is exquisite: every sentence a jewel'' Elizabeth Day
About the author
Diana Evans is the author of the novels
26a,
The Wonder, Ordinary People and
A House for Alice. She was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers for
26a, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel, the
Guardian First Book, the Commonwealth Best First Book and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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, the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, for which
A House for Alice was also a finalist. A former dancer, she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her journalism and nonfiction appearing in
Time magazine, the
Guardian,
Vogue and the
Financial Times among others. She lives in London.
www.diana-evans.com
