EPISODE · Apr 6, 2023 · 5 MIN
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key
from Full Trial Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host George Cummerata
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life Author: Amy Key Narrator: Amy Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. 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. With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a singular work - a beautifully-written and essential book about building a life on your own terms, which inspires us to live and love more honestly. ©2023 Amy Key (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/617707 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life Author: Amy Key Narrator: Amy Key Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 43 minutes Release date: April 6, 2023 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of love - as her guide, she examines the unexpected life she has created for herself. 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. With profound candour and intimacy, Arrangements in Blue explores the painful feelings we are usually too ashamed to discuss: loneliness, envy, grief and failure. The result is a singular work - a beautifully-written and essential book about building a life on your own terms, which inspires us to live and love more honestly. ©2023 Amy Key (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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