Looking For Eliza

Leaf Arbuthnot Trapeze £14.99

Intergenerational friendship seems an audaciously dreary subject for a debut novel. Nonetheless, Arbuthnot – whose wry observations pinpoint beauty and absurdity in the everyday – has written a page-turner. Thrown together by loneliness, bound by Primo Levi, an unlikely intimacy blossoms between a student in her 20s and her widowed, sexagenarian neighbour. As each finds joy and stability, lessons are learnt, wisdom exchanged. A tenderhearted tale of the redeeming power of friendship.