4 Books by Alice Jolly
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Overview: Alice Jolly is a novelist, playwright and teacher of creative writing.
Her historical fiction novels, ‘Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile’ and ‘Between the Regions of Kindness’ were both published by Unbound in 2018. Her memoir, ‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ was published by Unbound in 2015 and won the Pen / Ackerley Prize. In 2014 she was awarded the V.S.Prichett Memorial Prize by the Royal Society of Literature for one of her short stories (‘Ray The Rottweiler’).Her two earlier novels (‘What The Eye Doesn’t See’ and ‘If Only You Knew’) are both published by Simon and Schuster.
Her articles have been published in The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and The Independent and she has broadcast for Radio 4. Three of her plays have been professionally produced by The Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. Two of these plays were funded by The Arts Council. She teaches for The Arvon Foundation and on the Oxford University Master’s Degree in Creative Writing.
Alice has lived in Warsaw and in Brussels. Her home is now in Stroud in Gloucestershire and she is married to lawyer, Stephen Kinsella.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
If Only You Knew (2005)
Eva arrives in the surreal world of perestroika Moscow to start a new life with her boyfriend, Ned. But when she meets her godmother, Maya, she is engulfed by questions about her past. Lonely and confused, she falls under the spell of an ageing American who calls himself Jack Flame. But is he all that he claims to be?
Eva believes that Jack can help her to unravel the truth about her childhood. But what begins as a friendship turns into a relationship of frightening intensity. Torn between the loyalty she feels for Ned and her obsession with Jack Flame, Eva begins to wonder whose version of events she should trust?
As Moscow slides towards political and economic collapse, memories of the past rise to the surface, threatening Eva’s sanity – and, finally, her life.
Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (2018)
Tiny, hare-lipped orphan Mary Ann Sate – persecuted for her ‘devil’s mark’ and dismissed as a half-wit – is taken in by Mr Harland Cottrell as a servant in the Stroud Valleys of the 1830s. Living in total obscurity, she dies without leaving a trace, it seems, beyond a single line in the local death register- ‘Mary Ann Sate, 9 October 1887, Imbecile’. But Mary Ann was cleverer and more observant than those around her credited and, towards the end of her life, she took up a pen to write her own truth. Set against the upheavals of enclosure and the weavers’ riots, we are granted an immersive, domestic view of history, a vivid and poignant account of what it was to live through those times, amid the haunting landscape she so lovingly evokes. In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly casts an unflinching female eye on real events, and gives joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.
Between the Regions of Kindness (2019)
1941. Coventry. The morning after one of the worst nights of the Blitz. Twenty two year old Rose enters a house that has been bombed and finds her best friend dead. Shocked and confused, she makes a decision that will affect her family for the next four generations.
More than fifty years later, in modern day Brighton, Rose’s grand daughter Lara waits for the return of her eighteen year old son Jay. Reckless and idealistic, he has gone to Iraq to stand on a conflict line as an unarmed witness to peace.
Lara holds her parents, Mollie and Rufus, partly responsible for Jay’s departure. But in her attempts to make them recognize the tragic nature of their marriage, she finds that all the assumptions she has made about her own life are called into question.
Then into this damaged family come two strangers – Oliver, a former faith healer and Jemmy, a young woman who has lost a baby. And it is these two – and Jay himself – who finally bring about a strange and partial healing.
Between The Regions Of Kindness is a book about the cost of peace, about the unlikely nature of redemption – and about what happens when someone decides to follow their conscience no matter what the cost.
From Far Around They Saw Us Burn (2023)
An inherited aloe vera plant with an interesting history. Friendships cultivated over a lifetime fall apart in testing circumstances. What does the stranger with four fingers and yellow eyes really want?
From Far Around They Saw Us Burn is the eagerly-awaited short story collection from Alice Jolly, featuring an extraordinary range of stories including the award-winning ‘Ray The Rottweiler’, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s V.S. Prichett Memorial Prize in 2014, and the title story which was one of the twenty stories selected for the 2021 O. Henry Prize, the most prestigious US short story award.
Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright who has written six novels, including her memoir, Dead Babies and Seaside Towns, which won the PEN/Ackerley Prize in 2016, and Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile which was the runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize in 2019 and longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize in the same year.
Her first collection of short stories centres the lives of ordinary people and the various ways in which chance encounters and minute decisions change everything. It is compelling, arresting and at times, devasting collection – not least in the title story which was inspired by the tragic true events of the Cavan orphanage fire in 1943.
Written with an exemplary eye for detail and an intimate understanding of the complexities of human nature, Jolly’s collection builds up towards the ultimate question: what is revealed of us when we peel away the surfaces, and is it enough?
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