Ellis Avery
Praise for The Teahouse Fire
The tea ceremony becomes a tiny stage on which grand passions are enacted... Avery captures all this with the emotional poise befitting her characters, and great sensual pleasure. Her novel is a rather beautiful ...
Financial Times
Should appeal to fans of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
Scotland on Sunday
In Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, aesthetic rules vie with politics, sex and human feeling. Avery has whipped up a heady brew of sex and human feeling
Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and Kimono
The tea ceremony becomes a tiny stage on which grand passions are enacted... Avery captures all this with the emotional poise befitting her characters, and great sensual pleasure. Her novel is a rather beautiful ...
Financial Times
Should appeal to fans of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
Scotland on Sunday
In Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, aesthetic rules vie with politics, sex and human feeling. Avery has whipped up a heady brew of sex and human feeling
Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and Kimono
The tea ceremony becomes a tiny stage on which grand passions are enacted... Avery captures all this with the emotional poise befitting her characters, and great sensual pleasure. Her novel is a rather beautiful ...
Financial Times
Should appeal to fans of Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day
Scotland on Sunday
In Ellis Avery's The Teahouse Fire, aesthetic rules vie with politics, sex and human feeling. Avery has whipped up a heady brew of sex and human feeling
Liza Dalby, author of The Tale of Murasaki, Geisha and Kimono