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The seaside town of Edgecliff is where Rothko Taylor washes up after fifteen years away, and the past comes rushing in: skateboarders on the high street, the splintered benches facing the sea where their mother Meg drank, the nicer part of town where their father Ezra failed to make a happy home, and Dionne's block, home to the one person who ever truly saw Rothko. As a teenager Rothko sank into chaos but survived. This time Rothko means for things to be different. Kae Tempest's second novel, published in 2026 a decade after the first, deals with family, forgiveness, atonement, desire and community.
Dua Lipa chose it for her Service95 Book Club, calling it a new novel that carries something of all the forms Tempest has worked in, from plays and poetry to spoken word.
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I’ve long admired Kae Tempest for his body of work, which includes plays, fiction, essays, poetry, five studio albums and electrifying spoken word performances. Watching him move fluidly between forms is thrilling. Having Spent Life Seeking, his groundbreaking new novel, contains something of all of them.
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