Alle freuen sich

Reading and discussion with A. L. Kennedy, moderated by Beatrice Faßbender, German reading: Marit Beyer

"The stained glass windows are discreet and lend the Salazar a sacred aura. You can barely glimpse the happiness inside. The walls are painted plum-colored and have a rich sheen. When you take in the overall impression, the Georgian double doors, the delicate clock bezel, the Art Deco metal decorations, you immediately relax." A. L. Kennedy

A panic attack in the middle of a London train station, a newly married woman who is unsure whether she has made a mistake, and a protagonist who has to settle into a new life after the loss of her husband, daughter and mother. A. L. Kennedy puts her characters through a lot and is not afraid to look at where life is painful. In the thirteen stories in her book "Everybody's Happy", she writes with so much compassion that she gives even less optimistic readers hope. And A. L. Kennedy's well-known ironic, dry humor is not missing in these texts. A. L. Kennedy, born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1965, is one of the most important contemporary British authors and has been awarded numerous literary prizes.