Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
An Archive of Happiness
by Elizabeth Reeder
Description
An Archive of Happiness is set in the Scottish Highlands over the course of one day during the Avens family’s annual get-together. It’s the summer solstice and theirs is a fractured family, broken by arguments, by things said and not said, by a mother who has left and a father who was left behind. What happens on this day will force them to cleave together to survive and redraw the traditional bonds of family.
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Endorsements
This is such a big-hearted, intricate and compelling novel: it is as robust and delicate as the landscapes it inhabits. Reeder tells a story of loss, fracture and repair, every sentence infused with both clear-sightedness and love.
Jenn Ashworth
This is a wonderful book. Tender and insightful on the love and tensions on one crucial day in the life of a family.
Sophie Ward
Knocked out cold by Elizabeth Reeder’s An Archive Of Happiness, a magnetic storm cycle of a novel. Nettle-stung family epic.
Margot Douaihy
An Archive of Happiness is a poignant, multi-layered exploration of family relationships brilliantly revealed. A haunting story told in exquisite prose.
Ruth Hogan
Lyrical prose, with delicately beautiful descriptions that leave the senses reeling and take the reader’s breath away over and over again.
Celia Anderson
Author Biography
Elizabeth K Reeder is a Chicago native now living in Scotland. She writes novels, essays and stories. She is fascinated by things we build and dismantle (houses, identity, family, community) and how we write about them. Her first novel, Ramshackle, was shortlisted for a number of awards including a Saltire Literary Award. Interested in writing that creates spaces between forms, subjects and discipline, she supports writers/artists/thinkers to make our best work including making space for risk, exuberant failure, collaborations, and rigorous creative editorial processes. microbursts, a collection of her lyric essays produced in collaboration with artist Amanda Thomson, will be published by Prototype Publications in Spring 2021. She's a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow.
Penned in the Margins
Penned in the Margins creates award-winning publications and performances for people who are not afraid to take risks. From modest beginnings as a reading series in a converted railway arch in south London, Penned in the Margins has grown over the last 15 years into an award-winning independent publisher of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and cross genre work. "A marvellously exciting venture, bringing together the worlds of experimentalism and performance, always looking for new ways to present the spoken and written word in a time of artistic flux. The mainstream will, in the future, be redefined and enriched by companies like Penned in the Margins." Ian McMillan, poet and broadcaster
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- Publisher Penned in the Margins
- Publication Date September 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781908058775
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 9.99 GBP
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
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