Alice Thomas

A sharp comedy of marriage, motherhood, and scandal, filled with mordant wit and moral philosophy. Its constituent novels The Clothes in the Wardrobe (1987), The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1988), and The Fly in the Ointment (1989) describe from three points of view the circumstances surrounding a wed...

“The fields from Islington to Marybone, /To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, /Were builded over with pillars of gold; /And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood.” Look round the area of London where William Blake once envisioned “pillars of gold,” and today you’ ll find a landscape anything but golden...

"A work of astonishing illumination and delight...so edgy, bright and subversive about women's inner lives and experience."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable BookIn The Summer House trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct perspectives, narrate t...

Tucked away in secret chambers in London's Chelsea is the exquisitely mannered world of a Russian migr and her smugly precious nephew. Their insular existence is soon to be disturbed by a ghostly apparition in the shape of a young postulant on leave from a convent in Wales. From these strange trappi...

A moody scene of a hotel, the sea and lots of Scotch mist is the setting for this story. Atmospheric and distinct, although in some senses it is an archetype for the hotel at the end of the world.