The writer on seeing her first novel, Alys, Always, become a stage play directed by Nicholas Hytner Harriet Lane " once a journalist at the Observer " wrote Alys, Always, her thrilling debut novel, in 2012. It's about Frances, a lowly subeditor, who witnesses the death of Alys, married to a high-flying novelist, in a car crash. Alys's death marks the beginning of a new existence for complicated, ambitious, underhand …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM on February 23, 2019