Lissa Evans

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After a brief career in medicine, and an even briefer one in stand-up, Lissa Evans became a comedy producer, first in radio and then in television. Her first novel, Spencer's List, was published in 2002, and since then she has written three more books for adults (two of them longlisted for the Orange/Baileys Prize) and two for children (the first of them shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal). Her two most recent books for adults were set in London during the Second World War; one of them, 'Their Finest Hour and a Half' has now been made into a film entitled 'Their Finest', starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy ...more

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Crooked Heart

3.92 avg rating — 7,359 ratings — published 2014 — 38 editions
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Old Baggage

3.85 avg rating — 5,910 ratings — published 2018
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Horten's Miraculous Mechani...

3.92 avg rating — 3,490 ratings — published 2011 — 40 editions
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Their Finest Hour and a Half

3.60 avg rating — 2,252 ratings — published 2009 — 29 editions
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V for Victory

4.24 avg rating — 1,711 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions
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Small Bomb at Dimperley

4.08 avg rating — 1,484 ratings — published 2024 — 3 editions
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Wed Wabbit

3.93 avg rating — 1,186 ratings — published 2017 — 16 editions
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Horten's Incredible Illusio...

4.11 avg rating — 876 ratings — published 2012 — 30 editions
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Spencer's List

3.84 avg rating — 365 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions
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Odd One Out

3.75 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions
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“Hobbies are for people who don’t read books,”
Lissa Evans, Crooked Heart

“I'll just hang upside down from the wire banana and throw bags of flour at the librarians.”
Lissa Evans, Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

“The day after that, all the children disappeared, as if London had shrugged and the small people had fallen off the edge.”
Lissa Evans, Crooked Heart

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