AlisonAlison absorbed, delighted and moved me with its quiet truthfulness. No shouting, no hatred, no bitternessjust a patient, determined tackling of the eternal question: how can a woman artist fight her way out of the back seat and get behind the wheel?" Helen Garner 'Subtle and deliciously complicated' Tessa Hadley Alison is newly married, barely twenty and struggling to find her place in the world. A chance encounter with an older artist upturns her