Ask Alice
- Published: 1 June 2010
- ISBN: 9781409020714
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 352
A gripping page-turner filled with surprises, shocks and deep psychological insight... Intelligent, absorbing and most enjoyable
Independent on Sunday
A highly accomplished novel. It is engrossingly plotted, and its depiction of the vibrant decade leading to the 1929 Crash offers an interesting parallel to our own times
Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday
A plot of Victorian complexity handled with great skill
Allan Massie, The Scotsman Books of the Year
Ambitious and immensely accomplished ... above all a meditation on selfhood and memory
Guardian
Carefully constructed sets and a convincing commentary on social change
Charlotte Moore, Spectator
D J Taylor is remarkably under-appreciated as a novelist.
Lorna Bradbury, Telegraph
DJ Taylor creates characters who have dynamic spirit and capture the imagination, while the story has the tension of a thriller, the sensitivity of a romance and the wit of an idiosyncratic adventure
Easy Living
Excellent ... the impenetrable, imperturbable Alice compels
Daily Mail
Intelligent, absorbing and most enjoyable
Independent on Sunday
mesmerising novel paints pictures of many different worlds in the early 20th century...busting with detail... captivating
Books Quarterly
Taylor is excellent on the 'incidentals' - arresting tableaux abound - and the impenetrable, imperturbable Alice compels.
Stephanie Cross, Daily Mail
This special piece of period realism is very far indeed from being either silly or dull.
Valentine Cunningham, Independent
Utterly gripping reading... You are in for a treat
Literary Review
When on song, which he often is here, Taylor is a felicitous, intelligent writer. He sets a scene with admirable clarity, peoples it with memorable characters, and offers a plot that will keep most readers hooked and satisfied for nigh on 350 pages. These days this is rarer than you might think
Alan Taylor, The Herald