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Alice Thomas Ellis

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Alice Thomas Ellis


Born
in Liverpool, The United Kingdom
September 09, 1932

Died
March 08, 2005

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Alice Thomas Ellis was short-listed for the Booker prize for The 27th Kingdom. She is the author of A Welsh Childhood (autobiography), Fairy Tale and several other novels including The Summerhouse Trilogy, made into a movie starring Jeanne Moreau and Joan Plowright.

Average rating: 3.62 · 3,060 ratings · 491 reviews · 46 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Summer House: A Trilogy

3.67 avg rating — 584 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions
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The Inn at the Edge of the ...

3.46 avg rating — 544 ratings — published 1990 — 16 editions
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Unexplained Laughter

3.68 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1985 — 19 editions
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Fairy Tale

3.58 avg rating — 265 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions
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The 27th Kingdom

3.73 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
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The Sin Eater

3.45 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1977 — 10 editions
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The Birds of the Air

3.49 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1980 — 17 editions
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The Clothes in the Wardrobe

3.57 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1987 — 8 editions
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The Other Side of the Fire

3.82 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1983 — 6 editions
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Home Life One

4.24 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1986 — 9 editions
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Home Life One Home Life Two Home Life Three Home Life Book Four More Home Life
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“There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless.”
Alice Thomas Ellis

“Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.”
Alice Thomas Ellis, The Summerhouse Trilogy

“. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.”
Alice Thomas Ellis, The Inn at the Edge of the World

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