A House for Alice: The intimate and compelling new novel from the author of ORDINARY PEOPLE

Alice wants to move back to her birth country, but her children are divided on whether she should stay or go. In the wake of their father's death, the family's imagined stability begins to fray. Diana Evans' novel explores fundamental questions about how to raise children, do right by parents, and satisfy ourselves in the midst of turmoil. It is a warm but devastating narrative that is unputdownable.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2023
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

After spending fifty years in London, Alice desires to spend her final days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she should stay or go, and in the aftermath of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to unravel.

Meanwhile, youngest daughter Melissa has never let go of a love she lost, and Michael, 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' 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?

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. The Daily Mail praised her as "a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler."

A warm but devastating narrative, like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable. Harper's Bazaar praised it as "a warm but devastating narrative."

The New York Times described it as "a New York Times *100 Notable Books of 2023*." It was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. Selected in Best Reads of 2023 by The Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Harpers Bazaar, New Statesman, and Good Housekeeping, it was also a Waterstones Book of the Year, The Bookseller's Editors Choice, and The New York Times Book Review's Editors Choice. Starred by Kirkus, Review, and Guardian, Book of the Day, it has received widespread critical acclaim.

Weight: 556g
Dimension: 240 x 161 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781784744267