Lizzy Stewart

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing,...

When Grandma says she's seen a tiger in the garden, Nora doesn't believe her. She's too old to play Grandma's silly games! Everyone knows that tigers live in jungles, not gardens. So even when Nora sees butterflies with wings as big as her arm, and plants that try and eat her toy giraffe, and a polar bear that likes fishing,...

Two couples create a utopian dream of communal living in the English countryside – and then it all comes tumbling down, in this stunning new work from the prize-winning author of Alison. Charlotte and Francesca were best friends at university in the mid-1970s. But tensions coursed beneath their natural affection, deepening when Fran got together with Charlotte's friend Adrian, and...

A young girl imagines a grand future for herself, far from the drab British suburbs. Two friends, once inseparable, find their connection gradually slipping away. Three women discuss how life in the big city makes them feel seen - or invisible. In a series of interconnected vignettes, It's Not What You Thought It Would Be explores the circuitous paths lives...

Alison tells the story of a young British woman who, in her twenties, seizes upon the opportunity to escape from her quiet life in Dorset to the thrumming art scene of late-1970s London. But the vehicle for her escape is a charismatic older man whose reputation as an artist and philanderer casts a shadow which will follow Alison for years...

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...

Alison absorbed, delighted and moved me with its quiet truthfulness. No shouting, no hatred, no bitterness—just a patient, determined tackling of the eternal question: how can a woman artist fight her way out of the back seat and get behind the wheel?" - Helen Garner 'Subtle and deliciously complicated' - Tessa Hadley Alison is newly married, barely twenty and struggling...