Description
A.L. Kennedy’s unsettling, darkly comic novel follows Jennifer Wilson, a young woman who survives by retreating into a life that feels both perfectly fitted and profoundly unreal: as a disembodied radio voice, she narrates the world while evading her own. When love and violence collide with her fragile sense of belonging, Jennifer is pulled into an impossible spiritual and emotional journey—part alchemical romance, part Swiftian satire—where time, place, and identity refuse to hold still. As her attempts to connect deepen, the story turns with devastating force toward obsession, perversion, and the terrifying unraveling of sanity. With Kennedy’s sharp wit and lyrical intensity, the book explores alienation, the performance of self, and what happens when the mind can no longer distinguish escape from reality.
Available Editions
paperback
Vintage
Published Oct 9, 2001
288 pages
ISBN: 9780375707247
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First Published
1995
Language
eng
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