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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Twenty-one and friendless, Sickan arrives at Stockholm University utterly unprepared for adult life. After a chronically lonely childhood, the city represents a fresh start, a chance to finally make friends and the right kind of mistakes. And just as Sickan begins to fit in, she meets Abbe: beautiful, confident, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too.

Tender and intelligent, What A Time To Be Alive is a story about class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. About asking yourself the question: how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice to simply be normal?

A New York Times Editors' Choice

'A fresh, tender, and resonant bildungsroman'
R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit

'A measured and gorgeous writer, in command of the senses in a way that makes the reader feel alive'
New York Times

'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