11 books I'm excited to read this Spring

Well, what else are you going to do with all your bank holiday weekends?!

Arrangements In Blue: Notes On Love & Making A Life, Amy Key (Vintage, out now)
We live in a world of twos, and then threes and fours. A world where romantic love is revered above all else. A world where it's drummed into us, almost from birth, that finding a partner is the be-all and end-all. So what if it doesn't work out that way? How does it feel to live life without it? For poet Amy Key, now in her 40s, that's how things turned out. Taking her experiences and the album that shaped her expectations of love (Joni Mitchell's Blue) she's produced this gorgeous examination of living the life unexpected. From building a home to travelling alone to deciding whether or not to become a mother, this is a moving, painfully honest exploration of loneliness, envy, grief and a sense of failure. Read it. I guarantee you'll want to buy more than one cop…