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Diana Evans is a graduate of the University of East Anglia's Creative Writing MA and has published short fiction in a number of anthologies. She has worked as a journalist and arts critic for Marie Claire, the Evening Standard, The Source and Pride magazine, and writes regularly for the Independent and the Stage. She lives in West London.
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'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 Expres
‘Highly coloured, linguistically inventive…Evans has a powerful
and often beguiling imagination’ Daily Telegraph
‘Poetic, complex and lingering’ New Statesman
‘Sensual and poetic, as well as powerful and uncompromising…A
mature, compelling and beautiful first novel’ Times Literary Supplement
‘This is a satisfying book, full of energy and charm’ Christina
Koning, The Times
‘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
'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
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
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