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By putting one of our authors on the 'Hotspot' we hope to give
you and your reading group the chance to have all those burning
questions you might have, answered by the authors themselves - we
can't imagine a more direct way of uncovering an author's motivations
and intentions!
A. L. Kennedy is this month's hotspot author. Published by Vintage,
Paradise
is A. L.Kennedy's fourth novel. The tale of Hannah Luckcraft's love
affair with the bottle, Paradise
is about what happens when you decide that enough is enough.
Alison Louise Kennedy was born in Dundee in 1965. After graduating
from Warwick University, she went on to become a journalist for
the BBC, The Telegraph and The Guardian, among others. In 1991,
she published her first book, a collection of short stories, and
has now published four novels, two books of non-fiction, and three
collections of stories, most recently Indelible Acts in 2002. She
lives in Glasgow.
Read A. L. Kennedy's Q and A session to find out what inspires
her.
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