An extraordinary novel set in New York at the end of the nineteenth century. Alice Pinketon is tolerated by all those around her as a simpleton. Alice is in fact possessed of a razor sharp mind, honed by a restless imagination and years of reading. She moves through the society around her, observing its shallow culture and vanity, viewing all through the prism of the art that has sustained and nourished her lonely life.
Twenty-five years in the writing, heartbreakingly funny, staggeringly intelligent, 'Pinkerton's Sister' is an amazing work of imagination about imagination, a celebration of the power of fiction and its ultimate redeeming quality. It is a dazzling, mesmerising achievement.
