Loving and Living Alone

With profound candour and intimacy, Amy Key’s Arrangements in Blue explores the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Building a home, travelling alone, choosing whether to be a mother, recognising her own milestones, learning the limits of self-care and the expansive potential of self-friendship, Key uncovers the many forms of connection and care that often go unnoticed.

Amy will be joined by Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent, Melmoth) for an open and honest conversation about painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss, and the power of building a life on your own terms. 

Bios

Amy Key is a poet and essayist based in London. She is the author of two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn’t Forever. Arrangements in Blue was inspired by her viral Granta essay, ‘A Bleed of Blue’.

‘A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight about a life without romantic love at its centre, exacting as to its impoverishments, exultant over its many and unexpected riches.’ — Olivia Laing

Sarah Perry is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Melmoth, The Essex Serpent, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year Award and the British Book Awards, and has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. Her essays have been widely published, and she has contributed to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Observer, and the London Review of Books. Her second novel, the No 1 bestseller The Essex Serpent, was adapted for television.