Books by Alice Jolly

Written by award-winning author Alice Jolly, and based on an idea by the book lovers of Swindon town, this funny and, ultimately, dystopian tale, reminds us of the importance of literature in an increasingly dark world.

`I would place it among the classics of this century and the last' Sally Bayley, author of Girl With DoveIf you tell a story oft enough So it become true As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth.

An exquisite and original take on the family saga, from the PEN Ackerley Prize-winning Alice Jolly