- Published: 1 March 2006
- ISBN: 9780099479048
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
26a
Winner of the Orange Award for New Writers
- Published: 1 March 2006
- ISBN: 9780099479048
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 240
- RRP: $29.99
This sparky debut novel... Enthralling from the first page, this bittersweet fusion of fairytales and nightmares is sugared by nostalgia and salted with sadness, Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail
Hephzibah Anderson, Daily Mail
'This is a satisfying book, full of energy and charm'
Christina Koning, The Times
'The writing is both mature and freshly perceptive, creating not only a warmly funny novel of a Neasden childhood - with its engaging minutiae of flapjacks and icepops, lip gloss and daisy hairclips - but a haunting account of the loss of innocence and mental disintegration.'
Maya Jaggi, Guardian
'Very enjoyable...Evans writes with tremendous verve and dash. Her ear for dialogue is superb, and she has wit and sharp perception...A consistently readable book filled with likeable characters: a study of loss that has great heart and humour'
Independent
'A serious and accomplished first novel, an affecting study of togetherness and separation in a family, a marriage and, most importantly, between the twins'
Time Out
'An exciting and vibrant read. It's a weird and wonderful fairy-tale about the lives of twins...26a is brilliant and a great read'
Sunday Express
'Poetic, complex and lingering'
New Statesman
'Highly coloured, linguistically inventive...Evans has a powerful and often beguiling imagination'
Daily Telegraph
'Sensual and poetic, as well as powerful and uncompromising...A mature, compelling and beautiful first novel'
Times Literary Supplement
A dazzling debut...I adored this book; I defy anyone to read the final pages without tears in their eyes. Easily the best book of the year so far
Scotsman
A hugely assured and very moving first novel
Mark Haddon, Sunday Telegraph
A remarkable first novel...vibrant...exotic
Sunday Times
The Great Neasden Novel has arrived...Haunting and cherishable...A hugely promising debut
Independent