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Everything You Need by A. L. Kennedy
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Everything You Need

by A. L. Kennedy

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Mary Lamb, eine elternlos aufgewachsene junge Frau, will allen wohlmeinenden Warnungen zum Trotz Schriftstellerin werden. Sie hat ein Stipendium gewonnen und fährt auf eine Insel, um dort bei dem erfolgreichen Autor Natahan Staples das Schreiben zu erlernen. Was sie nicht weiß: Staples ist ihr Vater, der sie als Kind weggegeben hatte, den sie nie kennenlernte und der sie jetzt unbedingt wiedergewinnen will. (Quelle: amazon.de)
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From the prodigiously talented A. L. Kennedy comes a flamboyantly stylish and fiercely emotional novel about fathers and daughters, creation and self-destruction, and love’s paradoxical power to heal its most devastated victims. One such victim is Nathan Staples, a writer whose hilarious contempt for humanity is surpassed only by his corrosive self-loathing. Along with five equally dysfunctional colleagues Nathan lives on an island retreat off the coast of Wales, where he yearns for the daughter he lost years before. Now, in defiance of all his hopes, Mary Lamb–herself an aspiring writer–is about to join him as the seventh member of the colony.

As Nathan tortuously wins the trust of the child who has no inkling of their true relationship, Mary comes to a gradual understanding of her gift. In Everything You Need, A. L. Kennedy combines the mythic resonance of Arthurian legend with a sensibility as lyrical as it is profane.

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