When poet Amy Key was growing up,she looked forward to a life shaped by romance,fuelled by desire,longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties,she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love.Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide,she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. Building a home,travelling alone,choosing whether to be a mother,recognising her own milestones,learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship,Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed.With profound candour and intimacy,Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness,envy,grief and failure. The result is a singular work - a beautifully-written and essential book about building a life on your own terms,which inspires us to live and love more honestly.
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781787333895Number of pages: 240Weight: 361 gDimensions: 222 x 144 x 25 mm
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'A beautiful,painful,liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight about a life without romantic love at its centre,exacting as to its impoverishments,exultant over its many and unexpected riches.'- Olivia Laing
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