The A to Z Book Club at Elk Books

Welcome to the A to Z Book Club at Elk Books! We'll meet on the last Tuesday of every month at the bookshop to chat about the selected book, chosen in alphabetical order by Title. We start with A of course! Our first book is Alys, Always by Harriet Lane.

Praise for Alys, Always:

'A marvellous novel. I absolutely adored it ... So subtle, funny, tender and so miraculously observed ... Utterly brilliant' Jilly Cooper

'Amazing . . . chillingly brilliant' RED

'A superbly disquieting psychological thriller ... Mordantly funny, yet chilling, this tale of an ordinary woman inveigling her way into a position of power is compulsive reading' SPECTATOR

'A suspensful portrait of the outsider and a satisfyingly bitchy send-up of literary London' GUARDIAN

'Frances is a fascinating creation: determined, deceitful, intriguingly complex and believably drawn ... This deeply unsettling but eminently readable story is one that will linger in the memory' OBSERVER

'Lane's take on contemporary class is so sharply observed that it becomes almost satirical: the perennial theme of social climbing gets a superb new treatment in her highly entertaining, slightly chilling tale of a cuckoo in the nest' SUNDAY TIMES

'Superbly, even poetically written with an almost feverish hyper-realism, this All About Eve for our times misses no telling detail of the difference between the entitled and unentitled classes... A brilliant idea, brilliantly realised. I loved it, I loved it. I've run out of superlatives and all that remains to say is that I wish I was you; I wish I hadn't read it and had that pleasure to come' Wendy Holden DAILY MAIL

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