The Inn at the Edge of the World
(Common Reader Editions) by Alice
Thomas Ellis
Ye All Come Back In The End
Originally published in Britain, where it won the 1991 Writers Guild Award
for Best Fiction.
Personal Review: The Inn at the Edge of the World (Common
Reader Editions) by Alice Thomas Ellis
Many of us complain about Christmas- too much to do, too many gifts, too
much to eat, too many people around, too much commercialization and not
enough time to rest and be ourselves. In Alice Thomas Ellis's novel "The
Inn At the Edge of The World", we are introduced to five people who are
trying to escape the Christmas season. They have all responded to an ad
in the London weeklies to "ignore Christmas at an inn at the edge of the
world" The inn is off a remote coast of Scotland.Eric owns the Inn, and his
wife Mabel helps out at times. Eric wanted to move to this part of the world
from London because of his wife. Mabel has a tendency to go out and

party and he knows not what else she does. How Eric talked Mabel into
joining him at this God forsaken place is beyond understanding They are
unhappy together, and it appears later unhappy apart. Eric is not making
ends meet at the Inn, and he comes up with the idea of Christmas at the
edge of the world. He will be able to accept 5-7 people over Christmas and
then maybe his world will turn right.The five people who decide to answer
the ad are an interesting group. Each, of course, has their own story.
Harry, a military man, who has lost his wife and son. Harry has a
fascination with General Charles Gordon and the last days of Khartoum.
He has enough information to write his own book. Jessica is recently
separated from her man, Mike. She is a voice-over commercial artist and
actress. Jon, a sometimes actor, who is obsessed with Jessica. Anita, a
salesperson in the stationary department of a store. And, Ronald, a
psychoanalyst who's wife has recently left him. These five people meet
and spend the days of Christmas together. However, their miseries just
shift with them from one locale to the next. Their being who they are rules
out their finding what they profess to be in search of. As in all of Alice
Thomas Ellis's novels, the uncanny, the mystic, the strange confront all of
them. Because they can only use their everyday reasoning, they remain
unenlightened and return to things as they were and as they most certainly
will remain.On this island there is simply another order of reality. There is a
supernatural fable woven into this story that gets to the heart of what is
missing in the poor, lost souls who came looking for change and
understanding. Love this novel- love Alice Thomas Ellis. prisrob
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