A House for Alice

Diana Evans’s A House for Alice explores family, memory, and the political landscape of modern Britain in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. The novel follows a Nigerian-British family grappling with grief, homecoming, and generational tension. Evans writes with emotional precision, weaving political questions — housing injustice, immigration, belonging — into the intimate dynamics of siblings and parents. Her descriptions of London feel alive with possibility and pressure. The book’s strength lies in its ability to hold personal heartbreak alongside national trauma. It is a moving, deeply empathetic novel about where we come from and where we feel we belong.