Three Things About Elsie: Longlisted FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

The Sunday Times Bestseller ‘Lovely, lovely, lovely… Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Powerful and profound’ Guardian ‘Another sure-fire hit’ Daily Mail ‘Funny, melancholy, acutely observant’ Sunday Express ‘Cannon is so attuned to other people’s stories… a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are’ Guardian 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew – a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they’d laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light … In this humorous and profound literary mystery, Joanna Cannon, the Sunday Times bestselling author, takes us to a rural elderly home. This bestselling book, filled with detective work and long-buried secrets, is another award-winning masterpiece from Cannon. For fans of Elizabeth Strout (Tell Me Everything), Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin), Rachel Joyce (The Homemade God), Marianne Cronin (Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love), and Clare Leslie Hall (Broken Country).