Paradise

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

A writer of great power and subtlety, a specialist chronicler of depression... alcohol addiction, yearning and loss

Sunday Telegraph

Every sentence of Kennedy's fluid prose is to be savoured... An unflinching book, elevated by the sublime quality of Kennedy's writing. Lacerating comedy is pitted against passages of sheer beauty

Independent on Sunday

Kennedy's lyrical evocation of the mind of an alcoholic draws on, and slyly subverts, a long distinguished tradition of hard-drinking narratives in Scottish literature, from Alasdair Gray to Irvine Welsh

London Review of Books

In Paradise, A.L Kennedy weaves her word magic around one woman's determined embrace of alcohol

Rowan Pelling, New Statesman

A brave and uncompromising book that lingers in the mind, Paradise is A.L. Kennedy on top form

Independent

uplifting, moving and hilariously funny

Anne Donovan, Sunday Herald