Three women explore their gender and sexuality in a novel about what happens when a celebrated feminist carries on a highly charged affair with her only daughter’s closest friend.
...in Celine, Blakley-Cartwright has created a character who is that crazy, that powerful and that obsessed with breaking boundaries ... Boy, do those pages turn as the day of reckoning draws near! Reading Alice will provoke strong reactions from any reader, but don't decide what you think until it's all over. After a gentle start, this book goes gangbusters, then has a completely unexpected and ingenious ending. It's almost as if Blakley-Cartwright invites us to participate in a thought experiment — how the hell is this going to turn out? She gets the prize for the winning solution.
Blakley-Cartwright’s stylish and quippy writing offers thoughtful commentary on the women’s many-faceted, much-entangled relationships, and how they’ve shaped, and been shaped by, one another.
