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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A sweeping and beautifully rendered exploration of home and yearning following the fracturing of a family upon the demise of its patriarch

Each character here is richlyand deeply drawnThis isanovel that encourages us to stand in lifes burning doorwaysand to think long before we walkaway or walk through
New York Times

In the early hours of June 14 2017 the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential highrise 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 A table strewn with postit reminders and old newspapers And one Cornelius Winston Pittestranged husband complicated dad and Pitt family patriarchtakes his final breaths alone

These twin tragedies open Diana Evanss A House for Alice an aching portrait of a family of women shaken by loss and searching for closure At the novels 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 Her three daughters are torn on the issue of whether she stays or goes and while youngest sibling Melissa also grapples with the embers of her own failed relationship the Pitt familys foundational pillarsof trust love and cultural identitybegin to crack

Intimately drawn and set against a fraught political backdrop yet equally full of hope humor and humanity A House for Alice traces the scars of grief and betrayal across generations and uncovers the secrets we keep from those closest to us