Alice Nellis Book order

A new edition of one of Alice Thomas Ellis's best-loved novels. A beautifully timed comic novel with a hint of the supernatural.

A family gather together for Christmas. Each member of the group has an inner longing of some sort - Mary pines for death, Barbara pines for love and the children pine for understanding. Soon, the house becomes a place of conflict with the chances of reconciliation seeming more and more remote.