Name: Paradise
ISBN: 9781400079452

A. L. Kennedy

Hannah Luckraft finds an escape from her humdrum job selling cardboard boxes, her strained relations with her younger brother, and her lonely and difficult life in her growing relationship with Robert, a man addicted to drink, as she pursues her quest for the ultimate altered state in which she can find happiness. Reprint.

Paradise

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to realise that her lifestyle is not sustainable. Her soul is unwell, her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is unreliable and her drinking is out of control. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of her problem. From Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state âe" her paradise.

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

"Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinking is frankly out of hand. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise. Paradise is a compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty. 'The book sings its encapsulated pain with the effervescent energy of laughter' The Times 'One of Britain's most iconoclastic and fiercely independent talents, a writer who repeatedly tests our expectations-Compelling, even consuming' Daily Telegraph 'A brave and uncompromising book that lingers in the mind, Paradise is A. L. Kennedy on top form' Independent 'T