Having Spent Life Seeking by Tempest, Kae

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Author: Tempest, KaeModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 30 April 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 352 pages222 x 147 x 33 | 450g
Amazing, it really moved me Not something Ive encountered in British literary fiction before SHON FAYEIf books can still change the world, this one most likely will COLUM MCCANNA scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness DAWN FRENCHRothko 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 Dionnes 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 Tempests last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. This book is about things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel IRVINE WELSHA master-craftsman of deep feeling and linguistic intimacy MAX PORTERKae Tempest at his finest ANTHONY SHAPLANDUnboundedly beautiful MICHAEL PEDERSEN