An Experiment in Leisure
- Published: 3 June 2021
- ISBN: 9781473582385
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 304
I adore this book! It's a short, sharp shot of oxygen straight to the soul. An exquisite mix of agonising pain and unbridled joy. An Experiment in Leisure shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth and what it means to be alive
Maxine Peake
An Experiment in Leisure is an absolutely riveting novel that is both full of life and full of loneliness. Glendenning's words blaze and bounce across the page, brilliantly evoking the bizarre paradox that dogs early adulthood - namely, feeling intensely self-conscious despite possessing only the merest most nascent sense of having a self. A dizzying yet powerful read
Claire-Louise Bennett
A stunning, vivid and very funny debut about loss, family and the search for self-knowledge and a meaningful life. It's about the language of the heart, and how encountering those who speak a common tongue can shape the course of a life
Saskia Vogel
This is such a special book. With deeply joyful pace, and rhythm, I grew as obsessed with the prose itself as I did with the plot and characters. As things in the Big World seem to get more binary, An Experiment in Leisure plunders the grey area with wit and forgiveness - and that's exactly where I wanted to be
Tom Rasmussen
Remarkably assured... An attractive aspect of Glendenning's writing is the warmth with which she suffuses not just Grace but her whole cast of characters
Susannah Goldsbrough, Daily Telegraph
A deft exploration of millennial angst
Lucy Popescu, Tablet
Riveting...the words blaze and bounce across the page
Claire-Louise Bennett, author of Checkout 19
I adore this book... Shows us the burning, intense, messy beauty of youth
Maxine Peake
A stunning, vivid and very funny debut
Saskia Vogel, author of Permission
Remarkably assured... An attractive aspect of Glendenning's writing is the warmth with which she suffuses not just Grace but her whole cast of characters
Daily Telegraph
This is such a special book. With deeply joyful pace, and rhythm, I grew as obsessed with the prose itself as I did with the plot and characters. As things in the Big World seem to get more binary, An Experiment in Leisure plunders the grey area with wit and forgiveness - and that's exactly where I wanted to be
Tom Rasmussen, author of First Comes Love