# Paradise

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- Book: [Paradise](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/paradise) ([Paradise.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/paradise.md))
- Authors: [A.L. Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0905-818-2
- Published: 2010-10-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to notice that her lifestyle is not entirely sustainable: her subconscious is turning against her, her soul is a little unwell. Her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is not as reliable as it once was and her drinking is frankly out of hand. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can understand, but he may only be one more symptom of the problem she must cure. From the north-east of Scotland to Dublin, from London to Montreal, to Budapest and onwards, Hannah travels in search of the ultimate altered state: the one where she can be happy - her paradise. Paradise is a compelling examination of failure that is also a comic triumph, a novel of dark extremes that is full of the most ravishing lyrical beauty.