# What Becomes

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/what-becomes/9781409079095

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/what-becomes/9781409079095.json

![What Becomes](https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage-digital/a-l-kennedy/what-becomes_978-14-0907-909-5-8704b8d9.webp?v=2026-10-07%2002%3A55%3A32)

- Book: [What Becomes](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/what-becomes) ([What Becomes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy/what-becomes.md))
- Authors: [A.L. Kennedy](https://www.bookquiver.com/a-l-kennedy)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0907-909-5
- Published: 2009-10-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A. L. Kennedy's fifth collection of short stories show us exactly what becomes of the broken-hearted. Her characters are perfectly ordinary people - whose marriages founder; who sit on their own in a cinema watching a film with no soundtrack; who risk sex in a hotel with an anonymous stranger or who order a luxurious meal as their lives fall apart - but the stories she weaves around them are truly remarkable. She reveals the sadness, violence, hurt and terror, but also the redemption and the love - and she does so with enormous human compassion and leaps of black humour. From the winner of the Costa Book Award for Day .