A collection of raw, brilliant, unforgettable stories, from one of our great writers
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.
Quite astonishing... A masterclass in the possibilities of the
short story form.
*Scotsman*
AL Kennedy’s latest collection of wise, funny, human short stories
came at just the right time. I...emerged feeling better about the
world than I had in a while... Kennedy is brilliant at subtly
shifting the ground of her stories, gently rotating your
perspective so that by the end you’re facing in quite the other
direction, not sure of how you got there… [There is] waspish
intelligence at work here.
*Observer*
Striking, expertly constructed… Kennedy’s exquisite blending of the
limits of pain and courage recall Primo Levi.
*Financial Times*
AL Kennedy’s seventh collection of stories is a quite
astonishing…clear-eyed…masterclass in the possibilities of the
short story form; comical, plangent… Words indeed for our
times.
*Scotsman*
Kennedy is a superb writer and the canniness of her observation
keeps you reading.
*Sunday Times*
Connoisseurs of short stories that pack an emotional punch will
find plenty to admire in this fine new collection.
*Mail on Sunday*
Each story invites the reader to enter a very particular struggle
with characters who not only feel real, but whose aching
vulnerability will resonate long after the moment has ended…
Formidably insightful, A.L. Kennedy’s latest collection…is a shrewd
examination of life’s defining moments.
*UK Press Syndication*
[The] title and tone of [We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time] fit
our current situation like a bespoke suit… Perfectly judged and
moving.
*Herald Scotland*
[A] dark, dangerously funny collection.
*Daily Mail*
From the brilliant AL Kennedy...a collection of unforgettable short
stories about ordinary people wrestling with the lives they have
been given as the world spins around them.
*Refinery29*
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