Bibliograph

A house for Alice, Diana Evans

Type

Label

A house for Alice, Diana Evans

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

A house for Alice

Oclc number

1371013848

Responsibility statement

Diana Evans

Summary

In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, consuming Grenfell Tower and many of the lives within it. Across town, an earlier spark has caught fire. A cigarette left burning in an ashtray, and one Cornelius Winston Pitt - estranged husband, complicated dad, and Pitt family patriarch - takes his final breaths alone. These twin tragedies open Diana Evans<U+2019>s A House for Alice, an aching portrait of a family of women shaken by loss and searching for closure. At the novel<U+2019>s center is Alice herself, the Pitt matriarch who, after fifty years in England, now longs to live out her final years in her homeland of Nigeria

Target audience

adult

Classification