
What A Time To Be Alive
A tender, surprising and totally absorbing coming of age story from the author of Okay Days
by Jenny Mustard
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Pub Date 24 Apr 2025 | Archive Date 24 Apr 2025
Hodder & Stoughton | Sceptre
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Description
'A fresh, tender, and resonant bildungsroman'
R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit
'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief'
Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
'A dark coming-of-age story set in Stockholm [with] a really light touch that makes it really beautiful'
Natasha Brown, author of Universality
Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance.
Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal.
Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe?
What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?
What readers are saying about What A Time To Be Alive
'I know so many people will adore this as much as I did!'
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'Read if you love: Sally Rooney style messy relationships, relatable characters you don't want to stop reading about, and 20 somethings still figuring things out.'
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'I loved okay days so expectations were high - and I was not disappointed!! I absolutely loved this.'
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'Jenny mustard you have done it again.'
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Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781399740845 |
PRICE | £18.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 304 |