Tales of Alice

Five years ago, Alice Sebold’s debut novel The Lovely Bones was given a rapturous reception. Her latest offering, The Almost Moon, has provoked almost entirely the opposite reaction from the critics, but the battering it has received doesn’t seem to

Five years ago, Alice Sebold’s debut novel The Lovely Bones was given a rapturous reception. Her latest offering, The Almost Moon, has provoked almost entirely the opposite reaction from the critics, but the battering it has received doesn’t seem to have perturbed her.

All raven-black hair, alabaster skin and sensuous red mouth, Alice Sebold sits in the bar of a plush Dublin hotel with a smile planted on her face and a merry ...