Book description
A. L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly
what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly
ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a
cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel
with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their
lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable.
She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the
redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human
compassion and leaps of black humour.
From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day.
The author of five previous novels, two books of non-fiction, and
five collections of short stories, A. L. Kennedy's last novel,
Day
, was the 2007 Costa Book of the Year. She has twice been selected as
one of
Granta
's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards.
She lives in Glasgow and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at
Warwick University.
