The Great Wide Open

‘accomplished...a Strangely Mesmerising Effect...absolutely Excellent’ New Statesman New York, 1980s Alice Burns – A Young Book Editor – Is Deep Into A Manuscript About The Morass Of Family Life. The Observations Within Resonate, Perhaps, Because She Has Just Watched Her Own Family Implode. As She Reads She Wonders: When Did The Sadness Start? And Could It Be That Unhappiness Is A Choice? Thus Begins A Great American Epic Which Follows Alice As She Navigates High School, First Love And Sexism At An Elite College, A Spell In 1970s Ireland, And A Tragedy That Sends Her Stateside As The Us Embraces A Cowboy Actor Named Reagan. But It Is Also The Tale Of Her Endlessly Complex Parents And Brothers – How Their Destinies Are Written By The Lies They Tell Themselves And Others. The Great Wide Open Is An Immensely Ambitious And Compulsive Saga; A Novel Which Will Speak Volumes To Anyone Who Has Marvelled At That Pain That Can Only Be Caused By Family Itself.