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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.
Everything You Need, Kennedy's third novel, is destined to become a landmark in Scottish, and British, fiction of the 1990s, and represents an extraordinary achievement. Here, Kennedy surpasses her reputation for uniqueness, ambition and stylistic brilliance, but with a work that is easily her most accessible yet. Distinguished novelist Nathan, sickened by his creative decline, seeks redemption through his love for his estranged wife and their teenage daughter Mary, an aspiring writer, who believes her father to be dead. Inviting Mary to his island retreat, where he heads an eccentric writers' colony, Nathan becomes her mentor, embarking upon a fraught relationship which anatomizes the tragedy of a man whose love is so great that he can barely disclose it to himself, let alone to his troubled daughter. Everything You Need is an emotional, metaphysical and satirical epic. The visceral force and astonishing subtlety of Kennedy's verbal sorcery is sustained with a consummate narrative control and often overwhelming lucidity, which brings consciousness, language and the act of writing itself movingly to life, with a compassion and originality reminiscent of Woolf or Joyce. Reviewed by GAVIN WALLACE Gavin Wallace is co-editor of The Scottish Novel Since the Seventies and the literary journal Edinburgh Review. (Kirkus UK)
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