AM Homes' most infamous novel about the manifestations of forbidden desire and its terrible consequences.

THE END OF ALICE treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year in prison. The other, his seemingly sweet admirer, is a nineteen-year-old woman, intent on seducing a young neighbourhood boy. Teetering on the knife's edge between the American Dream and the American Nightmare, THE END OF ALICE unpicks the darkness of inconceivable desire, and the destruction and horror left in its wake.

"If the first major literary marker of the American dream of aspiration, potential and never-ending youth was F. Scott Fitzgerald's lyrical piece of doomed yearning, The Great Gatsby, its postmodern flipside [is] Homes's The End of Alice, whose paired literary voices made a grotesque harmony of two yearners after the dream of youth" - Guardian

"With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone" - Los Angeles Times

"Not all readers will want to see Homes's vision, but those who do will find themselves unmistakably in the presence of the Other" - TLS

"Undeniably shocking... Superbly achieved by a writer who is a true artist in words" - Vogue

"I recently read [The End of Alice] and thought it was incredible." - Observer