So I Am Glad

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'Kennedy is an exceptional writer... So I Am Glad is her best book.' Observer Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice. A professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artist, she has retreated into a world of words. Behind the sound-proof double doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in and Jennifer uncovers the harsh vocabulary of addiction and the addictive extremes of sex. -An alchemical romance, a Swiftian satire for our times, an impossible spiritual journey and a devastating plummet into insanity and perversion, So I Am Glad is oblique, incisive, hilarious and horrific.

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 London and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.

"A. L. Kennedy is one of the most brilliant writers of her generation" Sunday Telegraph "This woman is a profound writer" -- Richard Ford "Kennedy is an exceptional writer... So I Am Glad is her best book" Observer "The clarity, wit and description of her style are uplifting... A writer in her thirties, who is becoming one of Britain's best" The Times "Outstanding... A virtuoso performance brilliantly balancing insight and agony" Irish Times