Diana Evans is the award-winning, bestselling author of A House for Alice, Ordinary People, The Wonder and 26a.

Her prize nominations include the Guardian and Commonwealth Best First Book awards, and she was the inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers.

A book of the year in the New Yorker, Ordinary People received the South Bank Sky Arts Award, and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.

A House for Alice is the critically acclaimed follow-up:

‘Almost hypnotic’ – Guardian

‘Evans’s writing stuns’ – New York Times

‘A state-of-the-nation masterpiece…Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable’ – Harper’s Bazaar

‘Diana Evans is fast proving herself a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler’ – Claire Allfree, Daily Mail

‘Beautifully conceived, A House for Alice is a luminous, big-hearted novel’ – Financial Times