‘Alison is a haunting book, complex and intimate. Lizzy Stewart has written and drawn the aches and confusions of love and growing up with immense skill’ Posy Simmonds
Alison is newly married, barely twenty and struggling to find her place in the world.
A chance encounter with an older artist upturns her life and she forsakes convention and her working-class Dorset roots for the thrumming art scene of London in the late seventies.
As the thrill of bohemian romance leads inevitably to disappointment, Alison begins to find her own path – through art, friendship and love.
About the author
Lizzy Stewart has written and illustrated three picture books for children alongside ‘Walking Distance’, an illustrated essay, and It’s Not What You Thought It Would Be, a graphic short-story collection. Her debut picture book There’s a Tiger in the Garden won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Picture Books in 2017 as well asa World Illustration Award.