One of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists in1993 and 2003 'A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation' Sunday Telegraph
A. L. Kennedy has twice been selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists and has won a host of other awards - including the Costa Book of the Year for her novel Day. She lives in London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.
Brilliant... These 12 stories are among the most devastating you
will read this year
*Daily Telegraph*
This woman is a profound writer
*Richard Ford*
An astonishing writer, with an imaginative empathy that seems to
know no bounds
*Time Out*
These are powerful, intimate and angry stories. Kennedy writes with
flaying precision about the things we won't often admit to
ourselves, let alone speak aloud
*Daily Mail*
The clarity, wit and descriptive intensity of (Kennedy's) style are
uplifting and the collection ends on a note of fragile hope... A
writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best
*The Times*
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