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Alice Jolly is a novelist and playwright. Her writing has been awarded the PEN/Ackerley Prize, an O Henry Prize and the V. S. Pritchett Memorial Prize, and been longlisted for Ondaatje Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize. She teaches on the Creative Writing Masters at Oxford University. @JollyAlice
On so many occasions, the sheer brilliance of Alice Jolly’s writing stopped me in my tracks, stole my breath. Her extensive research and incisive imagination weave a narrative as rich as it is haunting ... This is a courageous, important, stunning and timely book. With The Matchbox Girl, Jolly has sown seeds of doubt in our knowing and tilled the hard earth of certainty making space for compassion in today’s troubled world. It’s the kind of novel that doesn’t just illuminate the past, but gently and insistently asks us to re-examine the present - and ourselves -- Angela Findlay An important, powerful book, so real I couldn’t put it down ... This is a story that needed to be told. It challenges how we dole out humanity to other human beings, and it asks big questions that need honest answers -- Kathleen Jones Alice Jolly is a writer of originality, passion and insight into the suffering of the most vulnerable ... This will join classics like Plath's The Bell Jar and Toni Morrison's Beloved as an extraordinary novel about resilience -- Amanda Craig Praise for Alice Jolly: A writer of tremendous humanity * Times Literary Supplement * A rigorously researched, lyrical tour de force * Guardian * Beautifully written and brutally honest * Sunday Times *
