Another Life Altogether tells the story of thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett, a girl growing up in northern England under the shadow of her mother’s mental illness, and with some frightening secrets of her own. Described by Sara Gruen (author of Water for Elephants) as “dazzling in its authenticity and utterly absorbing…a rare, insightful, and gorgeously written novel.”
Another Life Altogether
Elaine Beale reads a passage from Another Life Altogether, her latest novel about a teenage girl growing up in northern England under the shadow of her mother's mental illness.


