Looking For Eliza

Ada is a widowed writer navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She meets Eliza, a student at the university, through Rent-a-Gran and bonds over Lapsang Souchong tea and Primo Levi. They begin to find what they're looking for in each other, but can they cast off their isolation for good? This is a story of connection and loss, and how a person can change another person's life. Leaf's writing is warm and lyrically funny, with the human condition at its core.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 18 March 2021
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Clever, warm, and funny - ADAM KAY

Beautifully rendered, thoughtful, and original - Pandora Sykes

A marvellous read - Ruth Hogan

Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman.

Eliza is a student at the university. She finds it difficult to form meaningful relationships after the estrangement of her mother and breakup with her girlfriend.

After meeting through Ada's new venture, Rent-a-Gran, and bonding over Lapsang Souchong tea and Primo Levi, they begin to find what they're looking for in each other. But can they cast off their isolation for good?

An exquisite story of connection and loss, and how a person can change another person's life. Full of heartache yet joyful and life-affirming, this is for fans of Normal People, Expectation, and Sarah Winman's Tin Man.

Leaf's writing is warm and lyrically funny - she has an eye for details both sublime and ridiculous. Looking for Eliza is an intelligent and big-hearted read with the human condition at its core.

- Harriet Walker, The Times

Weight: 234g
Dimension: 128 x 199 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781409185819