A.L. Kennedy – Alive in the Merciful Country
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A tale of defiant hope, love and resilience in the face of a callous state.
A beautiful new novel from Costa Book of the Year winner, Booker nominee and double Granta-selected Best Young British novelist AL Kennedy.
As a primary school teacher and single mother to a teenage boy, Anna McCormick is more vulnerable than many to the impact of a global pandemic. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on this already difficult present. Alive in the Merciful Country is a portrayal of kindness as resistance to the abuse of power by the state, by the police and by the villains much closer to home.
In conversation with Harry Pearson
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