Writers & Their Work
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A.L. Kennedy is an increasingly visible literary figure, yet she remains a writer who thrives on controversy. Kennedy has ferreted out neglected areas of experience, especially of female experience. She is constantly claiming territory and marking it linguistically as her own. It has sometimes been felt by other writers, critics and readers that the territory is so unpleasant that she is welcome to it, that visiting her spaces is a tour through areas of our lives of which we are ashamed or embarrassed. But Kennedy thinks that it is good for us to be made uncomfortable by what we read.