by Lissa Evans | Sep 16, 2020
THEIR FINEST HOUR AND A HALF Long-listed for the Orange Prize ‘From beginning to end, Their Finest is a delight. .. Evans’s prose is beautifully sharp, begging to be reread for a second laugh or to savor a particularly delicious turn of phrase. The reader is lulled...
by Lissa Evans | Sep 16, 2020
ODD ONE OUT ‘Evans takes a hilarious look at the wildly dysfunctional Devon family and the hapless characters drawn into their personal black hole of social disaster. Evans is very funny….the Tom Sharpe for the next generation.’ Sunday Express Netta Lee is going...
by Lissa Evans | Sep 16, 2020
SPENCER’S LIST Short-listed for the Bollinger-Everyman-Wodehouse Award ‘Intelligent, joyous and extremely funny…that the whole thing seems totally believable is a testament to the verve and conviction of Evans’s writing’ Daily Telegraph Spencer’s ex-partner Mark has...