Congratulations to Paula Galvin - who has won tickets to see A.L. Kennedy & James Meek for her review of The Blue Book by A.L. Kennedy
This is an astoundingly different book on so levels, its
look ( being blue), its change of narrative voice, and the sheer breadth and
determination of its literary scope make it a profound reading experience.
From the moment you encounter this book and its author
addresses you as the reader of "this book, this book you are reading"
you are aware that this is reading on a different level.
The book is simultaneously a meditation on the possibilities
of love, and loss and imagination and magic and entwined in this, is an erotic,
passionate evocation of possessive love.
A.L. Kennedy is a masterful storyteller who weaves quotidian
tales with a sense of the magic and mystery which underpin all human
relationships. Elizabeth Barber is on a voyage with her boyfriend who is
sufficiently banal to presume to propose to her on this trip. Events conspire
to obstruct and we, the audience remain enthralled to the end.
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