'Heart and humour in abundance... exquisite' The Times
After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her 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, now married to Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between them rises to the surface . . .
Set against the shadows of a city 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?
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023*
'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' Bernardine Evaristo
'Diana Evans is fast proving herself a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler' Daily Mail
'A warm but devastating narrative... Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable'Harper's Bazaar
Genre: Literary Fiction
After fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her 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, now married to Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between them rises to the surface . . .
Set against the shadows of a city 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?
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023*
'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' Bernardine Evaristo
'Diana Evans is fast proving herself a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler' Daily Mail
'A warm but devastating narrative... Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable'Harper's Bazaar
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"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
"Diana Evans's writing is so singular, so arresting, characterful, and so beautiful . . . Evans is always, always on the finest of forms." - Candice Carty-Williams
"I adored it. Her writing is exquisite: every sentence a jewel; every paragraph containing some insight that makes you draw breath with its rightness." - Elizabeth Day
"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
"A House For Alice is a sharp appraisal of loss. Evans writes deftly about the shifting intimacies between family." - Raven Leilani
"Diana Evans's writing is so singular, so arresting, characterful, and so beautiful . . . Evans is always, always on the finest of forms." - Candice Carty-Williams
"I adored it. Her writing is exquisite: every sentence a jewel; every paragraph containing some insight that makes you draw breath with its rightness." - Elizabeth Day
"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
"A House For Alice is a sharp appraisal of loss. Evans writes deftly about the shifting intimacies between family." - Raven Leilani
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