What A Time To Be Alive
A tender, surprising and totally absorbing coming of age story from the author of Okay Days
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What A Time To Be Alive
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Kaisa Hammarlund
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Kaisa Hammarlund
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Jenny Mustard
Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth'
Ayşegül Savaş, author of The Anthropologists
'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . . will go straight to your heart'
Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days
'A timeless writer . . . reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani'
Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn
'A measured and gorgeous writer, in command of the senses in a way that makes the reader feel alive'
New York Times
Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance.
Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal.
Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe?
What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?©2025 Mustard Stories Ltd
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In What a Time to Be Alive, as in life, old questions are made new again. A fresh, tender, and resonant bildungsroman from the wonderfully large-hearted Jenny Mustard (R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit)
Playful and witty, What a Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief. With her sharp prose, Mustard conveys a vivid sense of longing, and the difficulties of finding your place in the world (Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls)
Fierce and heady - this intensely stylish novel captures the fever of youth (Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, author of The Sleep Watcher)
What a Time To Be Alive is a compelling portrait of almost-adulthood in all its weird and wobbly-legged glory. Jenny writes about friendship, love, trauma and belonging in a way that's tender and true (Chloë Ashby, author of Second Self)
Jenny Mustard is that rare thing, a timeless writer, in that she writes intelligent, and elegant prose. She has a mysterious ability to lay things bare yet with a rare subtlety. Reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani. What a Time To Be Alive was the novel I needed. It is a tender and enigmatic look at Stockholm with a narrator I've never met before. Sickan sidled gently up to me and by the novel's beautiful end I was in love with her (Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn)
This excellent novel charts Sickan's late adolescence/very early adulthood as she navigates the challenging world of her peers, at university in Stockholm. Sickan is lonely, but is not quite at ease with people. Her hyper self-awareness - of her own social shortcomings, of her emotions - makes her a sympathetic narrator. Her childhood is revealed in flashbacks, where we see Sickan being relentlessly bullied as the only child of scientific researchers utterly unaware of her suffering. In university, Sickan makes firm friends with Hanna, falls in love with Abbe, and slowly becomes part of a group of friends. Navigating these relationships, she also falls in with Stockholm, which is vividly alive as a fitting backdrop to her story. This is a beautifully written novel that avoids cliches and comes to a moving conclusion that left this reader wanting more. (Doreen Finn)
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