The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay - Softcover

Moving and surprising. -- Daily Express

Funny and wise...not to be missed.-- Good Housekeeping

A rich, utterly convincing portrait of one woman's midlife meltdown. -- Lisa Ziedner

A novel which courses with suspense...an exquisite page-turner. -- Hilary Reyl, author of Lessons in French

A beautiful exploration of the complexity of memory, desire and loss. -- Natalie Bakopoulos, author of The Green Shore

Compelling...beautifully written...I can't recommend this highly enough. -- Katie Fforde

Further praise for Andrea Gillies:

Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches. -- Sunday Times

A delicate depiction of life, love and possibly madness. Moving and surprising. -- Daily Express, Pick of the Paperbacks

An intelligent, thoughtful, grown-up romance about second chances and the complications of relationships. -- Sunday Herald, Glasgow

Funny, wise and not to be missed. Good Housekeeping

Praise for The White Lie:

A gripping exploration of the stories families tell about themselves, myths sometimes more potent than the truth. -- Financial Times

Gillies excels in her portrait of a landscape that consumes the merely human; eats it for lunch, as it were, and has slowly, over many generations, created a family in its own image. -- Helen Dunmore, The Times

The prose is elegant and beautiful, and Gillies has a skill for creating both character and a sense of place... I couldn t put The White Lie down. -- For Books' Sake

The White Lie is a page-turner...It is also, finally, very moving. --Francine Stock, The Guardian

Gillies excels both at describing the landscape and at delineating those subcutaneous secrets and shared assumptions that bind families together. -- Literary Review A wonderfully compelling portrait of a family haunted by secrets and lies...pitch perfect on the chilling, devastating consequences of guilt. -- Sally Brampton

Gillies' beautifully crafted debut combines page-turning aplomb with psychological insight... She is a tantalising story-teller, dropping in clues, vertiginous surprises and unexpected revelations. -- Marie Claire We have a major new talent in our midst. --Daily Express

There's an echo of Virginia Woolf that lifts Gillies' work above the average family drama... This is an unusual, unsettling, often lovely story that plumbs the depths of what family means. --The Scotsman

All her life, Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers - Paolo, whom she marries, and Luca, who remains her best friend - until a dramatic series of events changes everything, apparently for good. Estranged from them both, facing a future alone, Nina escapes to a tiny Greek island. When an accident lands her in the local hospital, she finds herself telling her story to a mysteriously attentive doctor, and is enlightened about the past and about herself in ways she couldn't have imagined.