Paradise

A brave and uncompromising book that lingers in the mind, Paradise is A.L. Kennedy on top form * Independent *
This is a narrative that will not let the reader go - One of the most linguistically inventive and captivating British writers of the age * Observer *
The book sings its encapsulated pain with the effervescent energy of laughter * The Times *
Beautifully written...Her sharpest vision yet * Guardian *
One of Britain's most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents, a writer who repeatedly tests our expectations... Compelling, even consuming * Daily Telegraph *
A writer of great power and subtlety, a specialist chronicler of depression... alcohol addiction, yearning and loss * Sunday Telegraph *
Every sentence of Kennedy's fluid prose is to be savoured... An unflinching book, elevated by the sublime quality of Kennedy's writing. Lacerating comedy is pitted against passages of sheer beauty * Independent on Sunday *
Kennedy's lyrical evocation of the mind of an alcoholic draws on, and slyly subverts, a long distinguished tradition of hard-drinking narratives in Scottish literature, from Alasdair Gray to Irvine Welsh * London Review of Books *
In Paradise, A.L Kennedy weaves her word magic around one woman's determined embrace of alcohol * Rowan Pelling, New Statesman *
uplifting, moving and hilariously funny * Anne Donovan, Sunday Herald *