Alison Lurie

On her trip to the USA in 1995 she met fellow-novelist Alison Lurie . A couple of years later she went on one foreign trip with novelist A. L. Kennedy and another with poet Judith Kazantzis

Among many other writers, her long-term friends include V. S. Naipaul , Edna O'Brien , Alison Lurie (an American who spends much of her time in London), and Emma Tennant (who read Mary, Queen of...

JG is a personal friend of the American novelist Alison Lurie .

Alison Lurie called this book original, perceptive and very entertaining.DM , though not especially proud of this novel, feels that it was a watershed: here, through writing about people unconnected with herself, she found...

This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson , centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist...

Lolly Willowes is still in print, and, according to Claire Harman was still STW 's best-known work at the latter part of the twentieth century. Alison Lurie wrote the introduction for an edition in the...