When Barbs, a loud radical feminist goes missing, her neighbours are in a quandary and when a body is found in the river, all sorts of speculations run riot. In this comedy of errors, the author's theme is human immutability....
"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience." -- Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book In The Summer House trilogy, three very different ...
This collection of short stories offers a series of insights into the failures of communication and expectation between men and women, and the complex web of motives which dominates our hidden, interior lives. Alice Thomas Ellis is the author of "The...
The third and final volume of a trilogy following "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" and "The Skeleton in the Closet". The reader is treated to a view of the marriage of mousey Margaret through the eyes of the outrageous Lili who arrives from Paris to bri...
The Roman Catholic Russian ancestors of Aunt Irene, the central character in Alice Thomas Ellis's new novel, were persecuted and forced to flee to the Ukraine, Lithuania, Austria or as the story-tellers would have it, across 27 lands and 30 countries...
After she is visited by four mysterious men, Eloise's behavior becomes very peculiar. Determined to have a baby, she takes to wandering the hills near her remote Welsh town. She returns carrying a baby with startling green eyes. Did she steal the chi...
When your parish priest dons stone-washed jeans, suggesting that his priestly role holds no particular significance, what is happening? Alice Thomas Ellis, as self-described 'gifted and comprehensive worrier,' has much to say about the present state ...