Lissa Evans

Oct 25, 2024 | msn.com | Lissa Evans

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Oct 25, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lissa Evans

My earliest reading memoryI’ve never really recovered from the emotional battering meted out by EB White’s Charlotte’s Web. Yes, of course the death of Charlotte was horribly sad, but far worse in my opinion was the moment when, during Wilbur the Pig’s hour of greatest need, the girl who owned him decided she’d rather go on the ferris wheel with Henry Fussy. She had a pig of her very own and she preferred the company of a boy? I was beside myself with rage and disbelief.

Oct 10, 2024 | thetimes.com | Lissa Evans

I first read The Shipping News not long after it was published in 1993.

Oct 1, 2024 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Charlotte Wood |Lissa Evans

September favourites … L to r, Hilary Mantel, Anita Desai and Ann Enright.Photograph: PRCharlotte Wood, authorLioness, the latest from New Zealander Emily Perkins, is about social aspiration and the traps lying in wait for women when money and marriage menacingly collide. Perkins is one of my favourite writers and her shrewdly observant prose snaps with wit and acerbic insight. The Wren, the Wren is another recent favourite.

Jul 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Lissa Evans

England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose husbands were deployed to the armed forces. The Vere-Thissett family, who have been fortunate enough to occupy the substantial pile for many centuries, are also struggling to adapt to the new reality of a postwar Labour Party government.