Kissing Alice

Kissing Alice

by JacquelineYallop (Author)

Synopsis

Arthur Craythorne has barely married Queenie May when he is called away to fight in the First World War. When he returns from the trenches, he is a changed man and his wife and two young daughters, Alice and Florrie, strive hard to steer clear of his aggression and make him proud...

Although Florrie follows Arthur into the Catholic Church, it is Alice he seems to favour, and Florrie seethes with envy of her sister as she watches them grow closer. But Arthur's attentions towards Alice prove darker than either of them can yet acknowledge... And when Arthur dies, the three women he leaves behind must each find ways to cope with all that remains unspoken between them.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: Main
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 01 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 1848870345
ISBN 13: 9781848870345
Book Overview: The darkly intimate story of intense rivalry between two sisters in one familiy in which the ties of love and hate, fear and jealousy, innocence and experience, have all become dangerously tangled. It is a must-read for anyone who loved Atonement.

Author Bio
Jacqueline Yallop read English at Oxford and gained a PhD in nineteenth-century literature from Sheffield University. She has worked as the Curator for the John Ruskin Museum in Sheffield and writes regularly for the TES, among other publications. Kissing Alice is her first novel.