Review
`This collection of stories marshals all of Kennedy's qualities: unflinching insight, clear and spacious prose, and grave compassion.'
--Telegraph
Funny and furious, Kennedy's tales of floundering marriages and domestic disappointment follow an anarchic path of their own.
--The Independent
`Kennedy specialises in acute observations of thought...In this collection of short stories...to searing, painful and comic effect' --Daily Telegraph
`A virtuoso performance...like an album of brilliant songs you keep wanting to hear again'
--Independent on Sunday
'Touchy-feely it is not, but the humour, humanity and awareness make 'What Becomes' bigger on redemption than it would first appear' --Saturday Guardian
`Kennedy's superlative work always attracts admiration'
--The Herald
'Touchy-feely it is not, but the humour...and awareness make What Becomes bigger on redemption than it would... appear.' --Saturday Guardian
`Kennedy's remorselessly unsentimental short fictions are mostly powerful and are all pared to the bones in her habitual style.' -- Financial Times
`Carefully written and at times wickedly funny this is a lament to love lost.' -- Daily Express
--Telegraph
Funny and furious, Kennedy's tales of floundering marriages and domestic disappointment follow an anarchic path of their own.
--The Independent
`Kennedy specialises in acute observations of thought...In this collection of short stories...to searing, painful and comic effect' --Daily Telegraph
`A virtuoso performance...like an album of brilliant songs you keep wanting to hear again'
--Independent on Sunday
'Touchy-feely it is not, but the humour, humanity and awareness make 'What Becomes' bigger on redemption than it would first appear' --Saturday Guardian
`Kennedy's superlative work always attracts admiration'
--The Herald
'Touchy-feely it is not, but the humour...and awareness make What Becomes bigger on redemption than it would... appear.' --Saturday Guardian
`Kennedy's remorselessly unsentimental short fictions are mostly powerful and are all pared to the bones in her habitual style.' -- Financial Times
`Carefully written and at times wickedly funny this is a lament to love lost.' -- Daily Express
Review
‘AL Kennedy manages to convey an edgy modernity within relatively standard narrative forms … written with the tonal meticulousness of genuine literature’ - Financial Times, Lionel Shriver
‘achieves more powerful gut punches in its 217 pages than many novels manage in triple the length…Kennedy has produced another stunning, impressive and genuinely enjoyable collection, hard not to be charmed by’ - Scotland on Sunday, Claire Sawers
‘achingly intimate, acutely observed stories from the Costa Book Award winner’ - Woman & Home, Fanny Blake
‘achieves more powerful gut punches in its 217 pages than many novels manage in triple the length…Kennedy has produced another stunning, impressive and genuinely enjoyable collection, hard not to be charmed by’ - Scotland on Sunday, Claire Sawers
‘achingly intimate, acutely observed stories from the Costa Book Award winner’ - Woman & Home, Fanny Blake
