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‘A stunning multi-generational kaleidoscope of London’ Bernardine Evaristo

‘A wise, tender novel about family and love’ Monica Ali

After fifty years in London, Alice wants to return to Nigeria, but her children are divided on whether she should stay or go.

Alice’s daughters Melissa, Carol and Adele are in conflict. Their father’s sudden death has left behind a web of secrets and resentments, but can they put their differences aside to grant their mother her wish?

Meanwhile Melissa has never quite let go of a love she lost, and in return her ex-husband Michael, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past.

As Alice’s final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between Melissa and her siblings, and Michael, and his new wife Nicole, rises to the surface…

‘Heart and humour in abundance . . . The people on the page are real and raw’ The Times

‘So arresting, characterful, and so beautiful’ Candice Carty-Williams

‘I adored it. Her writing is exquisite: every sentence a jewel’ Elizabeth Day

Publisher Review

Evans’s writing is…subtle but grounded, lyrical yet accessible. Her characters feel real, their interactions – particularly that tense space where the political and domestic meet – nuanced * Sunday Times * [An] ambitious tale of a family in contemporary London… [Evans’s] wide cast of women are deftly drawn. There’s heart and humour in abundance * The Times * The sheer vitality of Evans’s dynamic prose… renders almost hypnotic her constant toggling between the prosaic and the metaphysical. There are some deft set pieces too, dramatising intimacy’s most finely nuanced dynamics * Guardian * A warm but devastating narrative, dealing with the fallout of the Grenfell tragedy… Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable * Harper’s Bazaar, *Books to Look Out For 2023* * One of our most outstanding writers . . . A House for Alice [is] a stunning multi-generational kaleidoscope of London . . . Evans writes with exceptional profundity and is exemplary at exploring the inner workings of her fictional characters through a prose style so poetic you want to languish in her sentences. * Bernardine Evaristo, Vogue *