Arrangements in Blue

Notes on Love and Making a Life

Amy Key

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Vintage
02 July 2024

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Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?

An essential memoir about building life on your own terms

Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?

An essential memoir about building life on your own terms
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*A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
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'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of Everything I Know About Love

'Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy' OBSERVER

'The harbinger of real talent' SUNDAY TIMES

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 - which shaped Key's expectations of love - as an anchor, Arrangements in Blue elegantly honours a life lived completely by, and for, oneself. 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 book which inspires us to live and love more honestly.

By: Amy Key
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN: 9781529919967
ISBN 10: 1529919967
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 02 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy Key is a poet and writer based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn't Forever, which was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice and a Book of the Year in the Guardian, New Statesman and The Times. Her poems have been widely published and anthologised, and her essays have appeared in At the Pond, Granta, the Poetry Review and elsewhere.

Reviews for Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy and solitude. * Observer * A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight. -- Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City This raw, gorgeous, pulsing memoir the harbinger of a real talent. * Sunday Times * Fearless... Wonderfully, Key's prose retains all the intimacy of her verse. Arrangements in Blue is a tender, subversive study of love in its myriad forms. * New Statesman * Amy Key writes with rare integrity, courage and style... A beautiful and necessary book. -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent