Reviews of Invincible Summer:
Irresistible . . . A crackerjack storyteller who deeply inhabits her characters – deploying pitch-perfect dialogue to poignant and hilarious effect – Adams uses the conventions of the form to examine larger ideas about class and commerce, art and science, friendship and family at the time of the most recent fin de siecle . . . charming.
– New York Times
Moving . . . bittersweet and compassionate . . . Like your favourite Austen novel, Invincible Summer reconciles the cultural reality of an era with the personal lives of its characters.
– Washington Post
Adams’s enthralling debut novel is an insightful look at how time affects friendships, what happens when one friend falls in love and how, even across the years and significant lifestyle differences, friends can rally round in times of extreme hardship . . . all four characters are engaging and relatable. Eloquent and gripping.
– The Lady
Alice Adams is the author of Invincible Summer (Picador/Little, Brown), published in 2016 in over ten countries and seven languages, which got great reviews around the world from the likes of The Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her short fiction has appeared in publications including The Times and Paul Kingsnorth’s Dark Mountain anthology.
Alice’s writing journey began at the Groucho Club as a student on The Complete Creative Writing Course. Since then she’s gone on to complete a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester, write two and a half novels (so far) and return to take over teaching the course from Maggie Hamand in 2017.
She also has a BA in Philosophy from Bristol, and bunch of coding, maths and finance qualifications from her original career in banking – City escapees welcome!
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