The End Of Alice

A.M. Homes never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything -- Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours
If the first major literary marker of the American dream of aspiration, potential and never-ending youth was F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical piece of doomed yearning, The Great Gatsby, its postmodern flipside [is] Homes's The End of Alice, whose paired literary voices made a grotesque harmony of two yearners after the dream of youth -- Ali Smith * Guardian *
Homes instructs us about ourselves and shows us what we are blighted with, and cringe from, our compulsions, repressions, longings, glimpses of madness -- Ruth Rendell
With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone * Los Angeles Times *
Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other * TLS *
Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words * Vogue *
Chillingly precise and almost beautiful -- Will Self
I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible. -- Joe Dunthorne, summer books round up * Observer *