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OverviewIs it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms ***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** 'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of Everything I Know About Love 'Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy' OBSERVER 'The harbinger of real talent' SUNDAY TIMES When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - which shaped Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life lived completely by, and for, oneself. Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed. With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss- loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a book which inspires us to live and love more honestly. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Amy KeyPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.173kg ISBN: 9781529919967ISBN 10: 1529919967 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 14 March 2024 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsMarks an important shift in ideas about intimacy and solitude. * Observer * A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight. -- Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City This raw, gorgeous, pulsing memoir the harbinger of a real talent. * Sunday Times * Fearless... Wonderfully, Key's prose retains all the intimacy of her verse. Arrangements in Blue is a tender, subversive study of love in its myriad forms. * New Statesman * Amy Key writes with rare integrity, courage and style... A beautiful and necessary book. -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy and solitude. * Observer * A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight. -- Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City Raw, gorgeous, pulsing... the harbinger of a real talent. * Sunday Times * Fearless ... Wonderfully, Key's prose retains all the intimacy of her verse. Arrangements in Blue is a tender, subversive study of love in its myriad forms. * New Statesman * Amy Key writes with rare integrity, courage and style... a beautiful and necessary book. -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent Author InformationAmy Key is a poet and writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn't Forever, which was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman and The Times. Her poems have been widely published and anthologised, and her essays have appeared in At the Pond, Granta, the Poetry Review and elsewhere. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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