Having Spent Life Seeking: The new novel about connection and community from the Sunday Times bestselling poet and performer. by Kae Tempest
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Having Spent Life Seeking: The new novel about connection and community from the Sunday Times bestselling poet and performer. by Kae Tempest
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The heart-breaking, soul-building new novel about the transformative power of love, from the Sunday Times-bestselling Kae Tempest
The heart-breaking, soul-building new novel about the transformative power of love, from the Sunday Times-bestselling Kae Tempest
'A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel' IRVINE WELSH
'Kae Tempest at his finest' ANTHONY SHAPLAND
Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.
The past is accelerating towards them- the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne's block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there.
Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different.
A decade since Kae Tempest's last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. The things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.
Praise for Kae Tempest
'An authentically soothing, powerful thought-provoker' MATT HAIG
'A truth-speaker' MAX PORTER
'Powerful and merciful' ALI SMITH
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date Published: 30/04/2026
ISBN: 9781787335370
Number of pages: 352
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