Arrangements in Blue

Author: Amy Key

Music: styles & genres | Autobiography: literary | Memoirs | Alternative lifestyles | Family & relationships

Published on 14^th March 2024 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 240 pages
197mm x 128mm x 14mm | 172g

Is it possible life without romantic love isnt so bad?An essential memoir about building life on your own terms***A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***The book Ive been waiting for my entire lifeDOLLY ALDERTON, author of Everything I Know About LoveMarks an important shift in ideas about intimacyOBSERVERThe harbinger of real talentSUNDAY TIMESWhen 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 didnt 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 Mitchells seminal album Blue - which shaped Keys 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.