Book description
Exposing and exploring the sinuous undercurrents of violence, anguish
and love, A. L. Kennedy examines the nature of the individual, both in
isolation and society, as characters define and deny their chosen
identities. While showing us the unlikeliness of intimacy and the
impossibility of communication, Kennedy also reveals the subversive
liberation of impotence, the humour of discomfort as human beings chafe
together, the crazed claustrophobia of the family adn the wildly funny
results of an eccentricity unleashed. 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.
