Arrangements in Blue combines memoir with gentle manifesto, investigating our cultural obsession with coupledom ... [It] transforms the hyper-personal into a tender, universal portrait of fashioning a life on your own terms. * i *
Beautiful... Marks an important shift in ideas about intimacy and solitude. * Observer *
Raw, gorgeous, pulsing... the harbinger of a real talent. * Sunday Times *
Deeply moving... A study of love - platonic and romantic, lost and found - Amy's memoir demonstrates the power of music on forming a self. * i-D, Books to be Excited for in 2023 *
A beautiful, painful, liberating book. Amy Key writes with such tenderness and insight. -- Olivia Laing, author of The Lonely City
Amy Key writes with rare integrity, courage and style... a beautiful and necessary book. -- Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent
A gorgeous manifesto for a solo life, the power of music and friendships and a reckoning with the possibilities of love and fulfilment. -- Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations
A seriously beautiful and important work I feel lucky to have encountered and which will change how many think about love in all its iterations. -- Megan Nolan, author of Acts of Desperation
In Arrangements in Blue Amy Key finds a language, searing in its depth and honesty, for desire, shame, grief and, crucially, for compassion. -- Kayo Chingonyi, A Blood Condition
Profound and poetic, vulnerable yet brave, I devoured Amy Key's memoir about love, loss, memory and hope. An incredible writer, a stunning debut. -- Lisa McGee, creator of Derry Girls
There is a whole life pulsing within these pages, written with both clarity and eloquence ... A book to be read in astonishment and in admiration. Bewitching. -- Doireann Ni Ghriofa, author of A Ghost in the Throat
An exquisite book whose beauty sweetly stung me. Amy writes just like Joni sings... with ecstatic feminine power. -- May-Lan Tan, author of Things to Make and Break
Arrangements in Blue took my breath away ... Even in the process of reading it for the first time I knew it would be a book I would return to again and again. -- Sophie Mackintosh, author of Blue Ticket
Amy Key's extraordinary Arrangements in Blue isn't merely a commentary on Joni Mitchell's Blue, but something bolder, more personal and shape-shifting ... It makes itself up on its own terms. An intimate, absorbing inquiry. -- Paul Lisicky, author of Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
From grief to anger to full-throttled joy, Amy Key hits every note of feeling with perfect pitch... A brave and brilliant exploration of how one woman lives both alone and alongside romance. An absolutely gorgeous work. -- Heather Christle, author of The Crying Book
I love Amy Key. -- Lauren Laverne
Filled with lyrical turns of phrase, this insightful take on living solo will appeal to poets, dreamers and anyone marching to the beat of their own drum. It's a lush and moving memoir. * Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review* *
