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A.L. Kennedy

Serious Sweet Kindle Edition

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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

Jon is 59 and divorced: a senior civil servant in Westminster who hates many of his colleagues and loathes his work, he is a good man in a bad world.

Meg is a bankrupt accountant – two words you don’t want in the same sentence, or anywhere near your CV. Living on Telegraph Hill, she can see London unfurl below her. Somewhere out there is safety.

As Jon and Meg navigate the sweet and serious heart of London – passing through 24 hours that will change them both for ever – they tell a very unusual, unbearably moving love story.

Length: 464 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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"Kennedy tenderly anatomised London and loneliness in Serious Sweet." (Ali Smith Guardian, Book of the Year)

"So beautiful that it makes your head hurt." (Katy Guest Independent)

"Serious Sweet is a magnificent novel, showing Kennedy at the very top of her game. Ambitious in scope, daring in execution, full of dazzling apercus and dark comedy… It is a tale of redemption, as serious and as sweet as you could wish for." (Rebecca Abrams Financial Times)

"In equal measures, funny, sad and addictive… The opening pages had me holding my breath in fear and anticipation… Capturing the relentless hustle of London life to perfection." (Glenda Marchant Stylist)

"A. L. Kennedy shakes her city until the right atoms collide. She stands back to give a picture of the whole of London on one day, and then suddenly swoops down to pick up a tiny detail." (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Deeply affecting... Kennedy strips her characters emotionally bare… Serious Sweet portrays intense lives of quiet desperation: it is a novel about hope and muted courage and, at the end of the day, a very tentatively experienced optimism." (Hannah Beckerman Observer)

"A. L. Kennedy's eighth novel is a profoundly moving, often funny, and at points rending depiction of two good people. Serious Sweet is about the heroism of decency; albeit damaged decency... Kennedy is not one of our finest writers simply because of the quality of her prose: she is because of the moral profundity of her work." (Stuart Kelly Scotsman)

"This is a bold, cinematic novel... Parts of it are terrifically funny." (Herald)

"A genuinely stirring love story." (Mail on Sunday)

"Her flair for describing feelings and relationships makes this an engaging window into the messy minds of Londoners and her commentary on the city rings true." (Susannah Butter Evening Standard) --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2016 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
A Sunday Times Book of the Year

A topical London love story from the brilliant, prize-winning A. L. Kennedy --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

ASIN : B017DIJ2TG
Publisher : Vintage Digital; 1st edition (19 May 2016)
Language : English
File size : 1885 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 464 pages

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- 10,980 in Literary Fiction (Books)
- 14,479 in Contemporary Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Lyn G Farrell

Stick with this novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2018

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Oh, I just love it when I falter at the start of a book, and almost give up, but then try again and become utterly absorbed.
Wonderful storytelling, astonishing use of description and language, astute analysis of the complexity of love and political action, and spot on with her depiction of our struggles to make meaning of the world.

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carrie

Not as good as I was hoping

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2017

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This sounded like my kind of thing, but I found that there was a lot of stuff (presented in italics as the characters' thoughts) which didn't really add to the plot and just seemed like the author had an axe to grind about the workings of the civil service. Disappointing.

ziggyme2

Quirky, satirical and entertaining.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 December 2018

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I really enjoyed this. She is such a clever, funny and thoughtful writer and her observations about today's politicians are spot on.

K. Willis

A polished gem

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 January 2019

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What a writer! Just downloaded another 4 books because I loved this one so much. A wordsmith extraordinaire. Blown away!

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clivem

A laborious read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 July 2017

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Too long and ultimately too tedious. The interior monologue sections were particularly hard work. Needed a lot of judicious editing

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