Landfall

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With echoes of Evie Wyld and the films of Sofia Coppola, Landfall marks the arrival of a significant new British talent for the 21st Century What if one day you decided you'd had enough of your current life Alice Robinson, art critic for a magazine so fashionable it's just gone out of business, finds herself agreeing to housesit for her parents. Moving back home to a suburbia she thought long behind her, she finds herself reconnecting with a different landscape, a fraught and painful past. For everywhere Alice turns she finds traces of her sister, who went missing as a teenager. Can she stop her old life intruding on the present Should she even try What does Alice's new future look like

Reviews

Quirky, compelling, unpredictable . . . layers peel away almost imperceptibly and the ending is surreal yet believable * The Times *
A charming and compelling novel * Observer *
For the most part it's an uplifting, witty tale, but the ending is wonderfully unsettling, forcing us to consider whether the guidelines we follow really will lead to a more satisfying life * Psychologies *
Compulsively readable, with a silky smooth pace * Independent *
A memorable novel. I loved the pace and verve of Alice's voyage from Shoreditch to suburbia, and the unexpectedness of the story as it swerves past the familiar into a dangerous and beautiful unknown -- Helen Dunmore
An intriguing debut . . . Landfall takes a gratifying left field swerve * Metro *
Written with pluck and humour * Independent *
Beautifully descriptive, with a cliff-hanger finale * Easy Living *

Author Bio

Helen Gordon was born in 1979 and grew up in Croydon. She currently lives in east London and is a former associate editor of Granta magazine. Landfall is her first novel.