Everlasting Lane: A Novel - Hardcover

ANDREW LOVETT lives near York, England, with his family. Everlasting Lane is his first novel, based, in part, on his own childhood.

Praise for Everlasting Lane

A Boston Globe Pick of the Week

“Captures the dreaminess of childhood, and the small details that make it nightmarish as well... An ode to the last days of true child-ness and all their complications, frustrations, urges, and pains. There is beauty there, too, but as Lovett tells us—and he breaks it to us so gently—we only see that when our innocence is over."
—Cleaver Magazine

“Everlasting Lane is an excellent reminder of how smart and intuitive children can be."
—PopMatters

“Everlasting Lane is darkness and light at its best... This gentle haunting, evocative tale will appeal to any who want a different approach to the traditional coming-of-age theme."
—Midwest Book Review

“An unusual, childlike journey salted with moments of stark truth... draw[s] the reader quietly into the heart of a novel where both light and darkness abide--inside a stunning revelation."
—Curled Up with a Good Book

“If you are looking for a coming-of-age story with some shadowy twists and turns, I recommend Everlasting Lane."
—Read.Write.Repeat

“Charming and captivating."
—Riffle

ABA IndieNext Pick For January 2015

“Beautifully written, and as charming as it is dark, the novel unwraps the endless secrets that elude a child."
—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“Sophisticated and evocative."
—Library Journal

One of Library Journal's 25 Key Indie Fiction Books, Fall 2014-Winter 2015

“Engrossing... Familial melodrama and confusion are resolved and explained as Lovett’s creative tale broadens into an exploratory, discovery-filled journey for three zany outcasts—'a fluttering rabble of butterflies,' each taking in the world one revelation at a time."
—Publishers Weekly

“With nods to such children’s classics as Alice in Wonderland, Lovett’s first novel...contemplates the often very fine line between imagination and reality."
—Booklist