The Guardian-based blogs that form a master-class in writing from the Costa Prize-winning A.L. Kennedy.
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 Essex.
It’s a pleasure to gain access to the thoughts of someone so
unashamedly committed to the importance of stories. Written largely
as blogs, these memorable, often very funny snapshots of Kennedy’s
life also contain much better advice for would-be writers than more
overtly practical guides.
*Sunday Times*
Observations, both lucid and passionate, on the general state of
the book trade and literary culture... Yet it’s the manoeuvres she
uses and the structures she creates in order to let art happen in
her own life that form the kernel of the book.
*Daily Telegraph*
Invaluable advice to authors...her humour – often sardonic, never
malicious – is deployed to great effect.
*Scotland on Sunday*
On Writing is wit, sadness and aphorism for the writer, reader, and
human alike.
*The List*
The life-saving blog is the jam in the sandwich of her book, the
sweetener before her revealing stand-up comic routine/memoir and
more considered essays that give it professional literary
substance.
*The Times*
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