The Palm House
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Palm House is a 2026 novel by the British writer Gwendoline Riley, author of My Phantoms. It was longlisted for the 2026 Booker Prize. Laura Miller is a writer living in London. Her longtime friend Edmund Putnam has quit the magazine he devoted his life to after a new editor arrives. While trying to lift him out of despair, Laura deals with her prickly mother and her own past. Told in vignettes, the novel is a sharp, wry study of friendship.
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- Sarah Jessica Parker: “savoring every sumptuous word in Gwendoline Riley's The Palm House”