Arrangements in Blue

Notes on Love and Making a Life

By: Amy Key

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Hardcover | 18 July 2023

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240 Pages

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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

A 2023 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN THE GUARDIAN, SPECTATOR AND i-D

'Beautiful... Key writes with such tenderness and insight' Olivia Laing

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.

'I love Amy Key' Lauren Laverne

5* READER REVIEWS-

'It broke and mended my heart simultaneously'

'Stunning, honest, touching'

'An astonishing work, brilliantly written'

About the Author

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.

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