An Experiment in Leisure

Riveting…the words blaze and bounce across the page * Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19 *
I adore this book… Shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth * Maxine Peake *
A stunning, vivid and very funny debut * Saskia Vogel, author of Permission *
This is such a special book. With deeply joyful pace, and rhythm, I grew as obsessed with the prose itself as I did with the plot and characters. As things in the Big World seem to get more binary, An Experiment in Leisure plunders the grey area with wit and forgiveness - and that’s exactly where I wanted to be * Tom Rasmussen, author of First Comes Love *
Remarkably assured… An attractive aspect of Glendenning’s writing is the warmth with which she suffuses not just Grace but her whole cast of characters * Daily Telegraph *
An Experiment in Leisure is an absolutely riveting novel that is both full of life and full of loneliness. Glendenning’s words blaze and bounce across the page, brilliantly evoking the bizarre paradox that dogs early adulthood - namely, feeling intensely self-conscious despite possessing only the merest most nascent sense of having a self. A dizzying yet powerful read – Claire-Louise Bennett
I adore this book! It’s a short, sharp shot of oxygen straight to the soul. An exquisite mix of agonising pain and unbridled joy. An Experiment in Leisure shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth and what it means to be alive – Maxine Peake
A stunning, vivid and very funny debut about loss, family and the search for self-knowledge and a meaningful life. It’s about the language of the heart, and how encountering those who speak a common tongue can shape the course of a life – Saskia Vogel
This is such a special book. With deeply joyful pace, and rhythm, I grew as obsessed with the prose itself as I did with the plot and characters. As things in the Big World seem to get more binary, An Experiment in Leisure plunders the grey area with wit and forgiveness - and that’s exactly where I wanted to be – Tom Rasmussen
Remarkably assured… An attractive aspect of Glendenning’s writing is the warmth with which she suffuses not just Grace but her whole cast of characters – Susannah Goldsbrough * Daily Telegraph *

Anna Glendenning is a writer from Leeds. She was formerly an editor at And Other Stories, where books under her wing made the 2018 Man Booker International and Goldsmiths Prize shortlists. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. She was born in 1991, is based in London and works in the engagement team at Kew Gardens.

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