Arrangements in Blue - Notes on Love and Making a Life

'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTON<BR><BR>Is it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR>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.<BR><BR>With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure.<BR><BR> The result is a book which inspires us to live and love more honestly.<BR><BR>**A SUNDAY TIMES AND INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023***<BR><BR>'Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy' OBSERVER