Three Things About Elsie

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

Rating 4
10h 44min
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Description of the book

The Sunday Times Bestseller‘Lovely, lovely, lovely… Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe’ MARIAN KEYES

‘Powerful and profound’ Guardian

‘Another sure-fire hit’ Daily Mail

‘Funny, melancholy, acutely observant’ Sunday Express

‘Cannon is so attuned to other people’s stories… a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are’ Guardian

84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew – a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they’d laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light …

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Length Audiobook:

10h 44min

Language:

English

Published:

11/01/2018

Publisher Audiobook:

HarperCollins UK

ISBN Audiobook:

9780008196950

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Reviews of Three Things About Elsie

Another brilliant, poignant book. Read so well too BOOKBEAT has introduced me to some outstanding authors in the last months .

Aneska