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The World After Alice

byLauren Aliza Green, Barrie Kreinik (Read by)

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A Poignant Debut Novel from Lauren Aliza Green — Longlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award

For fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo, this deeply moving, sharply written family drama explores grief, secrets, and resilience with wit and heart

Morgan and Benji are getting married.
Which comes as a shock to their families . . .

Twelve years ago, sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji’s sister and Morgan’s best friend, died. No one is quite the same. As Benji and Morgan bring the two families together for the first time since the funeral, they know old wounds have yet to heal.

But as the guests descend on a tranquil New England town, it’s clear that these estranged families won’t come quietly.

Add in old flames, unexpected new loves, and the sharp secrets some still carry about Alice, and Morgan and Benji wonder not will the marriage last, but will they survive the wedding?

'Glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight' Ann Napolitano

'A page turner . . . honest, funny and deeply empathic' Charmaine Wilkerson

'Deeply moving' Heat

'This dramatic tragi-comedy takes us right into the head of each character' Daily Mail

'Poignant and thought-provoking' Culturefly

'Will make you laugh and moments later choke you up . . . impressively executed' Glamour


© Lauren Aliza Green 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

A lovely debut novel that glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight. There's a quiet beauty to Lauren Aliza Green's work, and I am now a fan

Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward

About Lauren Aliza Green

Lauren Aliza Green holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and was one of Forbes' '30 under 30' in the 2024 media category. Her work has appeared in Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Glimmer Train (winner of the New Writer’s Award), and elsewhere. She is the author of A Great Dark House, which won the Poetry Society of America's Chapbook Fellowship, and the inaugural recipient of the Eavan Boland Emerging Poet Award, sponsored by Poetry Ireland and Stanford University. Her writing has received support from the Kenyon Review Workshop, Bread Loaf, and the Carson McCullers Center. Lauren lives in New York City.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405964593
  • Length: 551 minutes
  • Price: £14.00
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