About the author
Gwendoline Riley is an English novelist known for compressed books about families, marriages, memory, and the evasions inside apparently ordinary conversation. Her novels include Cold Water, Opposed Positions, First Love, and My Phantoms.
The Palm House returns to the difficult intimacies of family and place. Riley's restraint leaves readers to notice the imbalance between what characters say, what they omit, and what their habits make visible.
Where to start
Start with The Palm House for Riley's spare, closely observed fiction about family history and the meanings carried by ordinary exchanges.
