Looking For Eliza

´Clever, warm and funny´ - ADAM KAY ´Beautifully rendered, thoughtful and original´ - Pandora Sykes ´A marvellous read´ - Ruth Hogan Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman. Eliza is a student at the university. She finds it difficult to form meaningful relationships after the estrangement of her mother and breakup with her girlfriend. After meeting through Ada´s new venture, ´Rent-a-Gran´, and bonding over Lapsang Souchong tea and Primo Levi, they begin to find what they´re looking for in each other. But can they cast off their isolation for good? An exquisite story of connection and loss, and how a person can change another person´s life. Full of heartache yet joyful and life-affirming, this is for fans of Normal People, Expectation and Sarah Winman´s Tin Man. ´Leaf´s writing is warm and lyrically funny - she has an eye for details both sublime and ridiculous.Looking for Eliza is an intelligent and big-hearted read with the human condition at its core.´ - Harriet Walker, The Times