Portia Elan
Praise for Homebound
A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box... Homebound is sentimental, soft-hearted and guileless – the adjectives critics tend to use sneeringly, as though kindness were easy. It’s the sort of book that might ...
Beejay Silcox, Guardian
Remarkable
Elif Shafak, Independent
Dizzyingly ambitious... Elan draws us deep into the personal stories of her protagonists, arguing for agency, indepenence and a celebration of lives lived on their own terms... a hugely impressive debut that imme ...
Declan Burke, Irish Times
A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box... Homebound is sentimental, soft-hearted and guileless – the adjectives critics tend to use sneeringly, as though kindness were easy. It’s the sort of book that might ...
Beejay Silcox, Guardian
Remarkable
Elif Shafak, Independent
Dizzyingly ambitious... Elan draws us deep into the personal stories of her protagonists, arguing for agency, indepenence and a celebration of lives lived on their own terms... a hugely impressive debut that imme ...
Declan Burke, Irish Times
A Cloud Atlas-like puzzle-box... Homebound is sentimental, soft-hearted and guileless – the adjectives critics tend to use sneeringly, as though kindness were easy. It’s the sort of book that might ...
Beejay Silcox, Guardian
Remarkable
Elif Shafak, Independent
Dizzyingly ambitious... Elan draws us deep into the personal stories of her protagonists, arguing for agency, indepenence and a celebration of lives lived on their own terms... a hugely impressive debut that imme ...
Declan Burke, Irish Times
