Three Things About Elsie: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018

''Lovely, lovely, lovely... Sue Townsend meets Kate Atkinson meets Nina Stibbe'' MARIAN KEYES

''Powerful and profound'' Guardian

''Another sure-fire hit'' Daily Mail

''Funny, melancholy, acutely observant'' Sunday Express

''Cannon is so attuned to other people''s stories... a chronicler both of the human condition and the quotidian details which speak to who we are'' Guardian

84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she considers the charming new resident who looks exactly like a man she once knew - a man who died sixty years ago. His arrival has stirred distant memories she and Elsie thought they''d laid to rest. Lying prone in the front room, Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light ...