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Lillian on Life

Alison Jean Lester

'I absolutely loved it. A delight . . . so fresh and clever and subversive' Kate Atkinson

'I completely loved Lillian on Life. What a great voice what energy and wit . . . very original and often extremely funny' Karen Joy Fowler


Lillian a single well-travelled woman of a certain age wakes up next to her married lover and looks back at her life. It's not at all the life she expected.

Walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern options for women Lillian has grappled with parental disappointment society's expectations and the vagaries of love and sex. As a narrator she's bold and witty and her reflections - from 'On Getting to Sex' to 'On the Importance of Big Pockets' or 'On Leaving in Order to Stay' - reverberate originally and unpredictably.

In Lillian on Life Alison Jean Lester has created a brutally honest portrait of a woman living through the post-war decades of change in Munich Paris London and New York. Her story resonates with the glamour and energy of those cities. Charming sometimes heartbreaking never a stereotype Lillian is completely herself; her view of the world is unique. You won't soon forget her.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUL 2, 2015
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 256
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781848549524
  • Price : INR 575
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Alison Jean Lester

Alison Jean Lester was born to an American father and a British mother and educated in the US the UK China and Italy. She spent twenty-five years working writing and raising her children in Japan and Singapore before relocating to the UK in 2016. She is the author of the novel Lillian on Life and has had short stories published in Ecotone Good Housekeeping Synaesthesia and Barrelhouse.

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