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.
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 *