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|title=Alys, Always

|sort=Alys, Always

|borrow=Yes

|isbn=9781780220017

|pages=240

|publisher=Phoenix

|date=February 2012

|website=http://www.harrietlane.co.uk/

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|summary=Chilling story of one woman's ambition to mix with the literary elite. Funny, psychologically complex and superbly observed. This is really a superb debut novel.

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Harriet Lane's debut novel, ''Alys, Always'' garnered a raft of favourable coverage from the professional reviewers when it was first published in hardback. Concerning, as it does, a young woman who works as a sub-editor in a publishing company and a Booker winning novelist, there is always the chance that this was due to the reviewers merely recognizing the world that is portrayed. This view is unfounded though - it is a superbly drawn, frequently very funny, and often psychologically chilling story of ambition and class differences. It thoroughly deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it.

If you enjoyed this then the Booker winning [[The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes]] will undoubtedly appeal to you as well.

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