Andrew K Kennedy

the antique dealer’s women

‘It is a beautiful, spare, elegant, novel which lingers in the mind, and a great pleasure to read.’ Fay Weldon

‘I enjoyed the panache of your writing and the boldness of your approach – five women or one woman in five forms.’ Simon Gray  

‘I hugely enjoyed the stories; no wonder you gave up academic life for fiction.’ Andrew Marr, BBC  

‘It has a Continental European quality, unlike anything to be found in contemporary Brit Lit.’ David Lodge  

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‘The prose is so elegant, so sensuous, so assured. Wonderful writing.’ Elaine Feinstein  

‘...rich and allusive... . I have no problem WHATSOEVER about any  "old-fashioned" qualities the writing may have: in fact, I’d count that a compliment.’ Lorna Tracy (former fiction editor, Stand Magazine)

Donald Waterman tends to be distracted from his interest in antique furniture by his obsessive and ambivalent involvement with women – virgin, married, divorced, widowed and unmarried in turn, in different seasons and cities. A reluctant adventurer, torn between Don Juanish and idealistic impulses, his complex memories recreate the temptations and neuroses of his challenging female friends, for example the divorcee’s split self and the widow’s death-consciousness. In the end he faces loss of memory but traces of his quest for passion remain.

The Antique Dealer’s Women, by Andrew K Kennedy, published by Meadows Press, Cambridge, ISBN 978-0-9536731-1-7, £7.99, pbk.