Harriet Lane's Books
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Alys, AlwaysA suspenseful literary debut that explores the dark side of desire and ambition as a woman insinuates herself into a world of wealth and privilege.Read More
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Mail Online UK, April 14, 2013
...time I spoke honestly to someone about it was last September. I met my friend and fellow novelist Harriet Lane at a café in Hampstead. She is also losing her sight to a disease of the optic nerve hers has been a sudden and shocking blindness, which has...
Cleveland Live, April 11, 2013
...and what it looks like, even, and most especially, when life gets hard and complicated." Alys, Always Harriet Lane Scribner, 209 pp., $16 Frances Thorp does the decent thing: When she comes upon a car crash on a bitterly cold night, she calls for...
The Lady, March 21, 2013
...through the book as quickly as the characters are racing for their lives. Cara Purvis ALYS, ALWAYS by Harriet Lane (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £7.99; offer price, £7.59) Frances is a sub-editor on The Questioner. One night she comes across a car wreck...
The Scotsman, January 18, 2013
...horrific plans. Luckily, he was so arrogant that he went around in an open-topped Mercedes. Alys, Always by Harriet Lane (Phoenix, £7.99) * * * Frances is a quiet young woman – she’s a lowly sub-editor on the literary pages of a national...
Guardian.co.uk, December 15, 2012
...Harriet Lane's tale of a manipulative newspaper subeditor is as unsettling as it is impressive There is no shortage of novels with defective male narrators: Martin Amis, Blake Morrison and...
The Independent, December 14, 2012
...like stumbling upon magic. Miraculously, all these years and re-readings later, it still has that effect on me. Harriet Lane's 'Alys, Always' is published in paperback by Phoenix...
Mail Online UK, December 9, 2012
...things, even dangerous things.' Subtle, funny, tender and so miraculously observed. Utterly brilliant Jilly Cooper ● The author Harriet Lane, a former magazine and newspaper journalist, began writing fiction when she had to give up journalism after...
The Scotsman, January 18, 2013
...horrific plans. Luckily, he was so arrogant that he went around in an open-topped Mercedes. Alys, Always by Harriet Lane (Phoenix, £7.99) * * * Frances is a quiet young woman – she’s a lowly sub-editor on the literary pages of a national...
Minnesota Public Radio, January 18, 2013
...one or another practice more or less comfortable. The First Lady will continue to be called "First Lady" (Harriet Lane) http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/harrietlane on first reference and "the first lady" on second or later references....
Winston County Journal, January 18, 2013
...before dawn…Then the Confederate “cottonclads” struck from the rear of the Union squadron. The [U.S.S.] Harriet Lane sank the[C.S.] Neptune when it tried to ram the Union ship, but men from the [C.S.] Bayou City boarded and seized the federal...
ZDNet, January 18, 2013
...Stones River/Second Battle of Murfreesboro - Galveston, Texas Operations conclude - Second Battle of Galveston - The USRC Harriet Lane is captured by Confederate forces - Lt. Lea (USA) commands the repelling force and is mortally wounded - Maj. Albert...
Winston County Journal, January 18, 2013
...dawn… Then the Confederate “cottonclads” struck from the rear of the Union squadron. The [U.S.S.] Harriet Lane sank the[C.S.] Neptune when it tried to ram the Union ship, but men from the [C.S.] Bayou City boarded and seized the federal vessel...
NPR, January 18, 2013
...one or another practice more or less comfortable. The First Lady will continue to be called "First Lady" (Harriet Lane) http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/harrietlane on first reference and "the first lady" on second or later references. "Miss...
The Choctaw Plaindealer, January 18, 2013
...dawn… Then the Confederate “cottonclads” struck from the rear of the Union squadron. The [U.S.S.] Harriet Lane sank the[C.S.] Neptune when it tried to ram the Union ship, but men from the [C.S.] Bayou City boarded and seized the federal vessel...
