Kit
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Megan and Kit met in their early twenties. Their friendship was intense, wild and true.
Years later, when Kit becomes desperately unwell, Megan tries to pull her old friend back from the precipice, navigating the difficulties of revisiting a relationship conceived in the great freedom of youth, whilst attempting to remain fully present in the messy beauty of her family life.
Kit is a story of the sumptuous complication - and precariousness - of life and relationships. It describes a call to intimacy in a state of emergency. It is a story of one life disrupted as another moves toward its end.
Told in a spare, winding prose-poem, with a voice reminiscent of Max Porter, Elizabeth Smart, Kae Tempest and Rebecca Watson, Kit is a splintered, powerful work of empathy, friendship and unconditional love.
Read MorePraise for Kit
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'This beautiful, unflinching book asks us
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what it might mean to truly confront loss
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- its shame, its intimacies, its clarifying
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horrors, the ways it forces us to relearn
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how to live.' - Keiran Goddard, author of Hourglass
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'Extraordinary [...] It is a "poultice of
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words" - something that brings feeling to
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the surface. It bears witness to death,
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and how the living live with it.' - Padraig O Tuama, editor of Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
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''Kit is love and pain distilled: a book of
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extraordinary force. It left me reeling for
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days'' - Tom Bullough, author of Addlands
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