Everything You Need

First edition. Large 8vo. Pp. [vi], 566, [1], [3, blank]. Black cloth boards, stamped in silver to spine; black endpapers. Richard Ford blurb to rear dustwrapper panel.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's third novel. A spent, misanthropic writer living on a writers' island retreat off the Wales coast contrives to have his estranged daughter – herself an aspiring writer – join him as the seventh member of the colony. Included on Granta's List of Best Young British Authors for both 1993 and 2003. "With this book [A.L. Kennedy] arrives in the front rank of contemporary British novelists. A Booker contender." –Publishing News