Product Description

Jennifer M. Wilson has decided to become a voice, a professional enunciator, an announcer, a voice-over artiste. Behind the sound-proof doors of the recording studio she must surely be safe from the painful inconveniences of hate and love. Until reality breaks in.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278545 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-28
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 282 pages

About the Author
A. L. Kennedy has published four previous collections of stories and three novels. She has received many prizes for her work, including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Encore Award and the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award.

Customer Reviews

A beautiful book
I decided to write this when I read the previous review. Worried that it might put off potential readers of this incredible book I decided another opinion should be heard. First of all though I would like to say that the previous reviewer was right about the publishers synopsis telling you nothing useful. But this is quite a hard book to describe plotwise. The best way I can think to describe it is that it gave me the feeling of silk flowing over me; the words are so smooth and poetic, yet there is a brutal honesty of feeling that stikes right through. I became completly lost in A.L. Kennedy's world and the dazzling conclusion which, if I were to describe to you may seem absurd, seems only beautiful and perfectly fitting.

truly excellent
I can't disagree more with the negative review above. Kennedy's prose style is the best I've seen in a modern writer - simple, direct and often emotionally devastating. The themes of her book are complex - the novel deals with love, sex and emotional articulacy - but they are handled in a sensitive and complex way that belies the cookie-cutter model of human relationships that most chick-lit and Hollywood movies chooses to peddle.

Pretentious nonsense
This has to be the worst book I have ever read. I challenge any reader to know what the author is trying to get across or to follow the basic theme of the underlying story. Even the publisher's own synopsis is baffling - they obviously struggled to translate this rubbish. No wonder second hand and charity bookstores are overflowing with copies!