LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
A Sunday Times Book of the Year
A topical London love story from the brilliant, 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.
"Kennedy tenderly anatomised London and loneliness in Serious
Sweet."
*Guardian, Book of the Year*
"So beautiful that it makes your head hurt."
*Independent*
"Serious Sweet is a magnificent novel, showing Kennedy at the very
top of her game. Ambitious in scope, daring in execution, full of
dazzling apercus and dark comedy… It is a tale of redemption, as
serious and as sweet as you could wish for."
*Financial Times*
"In equal measures, funny, sad and addictive… The opening pages had
me holding my breath in fear and anticipation… Capturing the
relentless hustle of London life to perfection."
*Stylist*
"A. L. Kennedy shakes her city until the right atoms collide. She
stands back to give a picture of the whole of London on one day,
and then suddenly swoops down to pick up a tiny detail."
*The Times*
"Deeply affecting... Kennedy strips her characters emotionally
bare… Serious Sweet portrays intense lives of quiet desperation: it
is a novel about hope and muted courage and, at the end of the day,
a very tentatively experienced optimism."
*Observer*
"A. L. Kennedy's eighth novel is a profoundly moving, often funny,
and at points rending depiction of two good people. Serious Sweet
is about the heroism of decency; albeit damaged decency... Kennedy
is not one of our finest writers simply because of the quality of
her prose: she is because of the moral profundity of her work."
*Scotsman*
"This is a bold, cinematic novel... Parts of it are terrifically
funny."
*Herald*
"A genuinely stirring love story."
*Mail on Sunday*
"Her flair for describing feelings and relationships makes this an
engaging window into the messy minds of Londoners and her
commentary on the city rings true."
*Evening Standard*
"Determinedly and impressively intellectual… A novel of ideas that
is deft enough never to be didactic because it asks more question
than it answers."
*Guardian*
"This is an author with a proven ability to see – truly see – and
whose prose can fire like gunshots across the page."
*New Statesman*
"[Like] Sleepless in Seattle, respun by James Joyce, and set within
a London on the precipice of Brexit."
*Culture Trip*
"Her best book in years."
*Guardian*
"Uniquely moving love story."
*Independent*
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