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Having Spent Life Seeking

The Sunday Times bestselling story of love, second chances and being seen

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Having Spent Life Seeking

Yazan: Kae Tempest
Seslendiren: Kae Tempest
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Narrated by Kae Tempest with music by Hinako Omori.

Rothko Taylor has washed up with the tide, back in their hometown, Edgecliff. Fifteen years since they left it behind.

The past is accelerating towards them: the skateboard kids on the high street that remind them of their teenage years, the splintered benches looking out to sea, where their mum Meg clutched her cans. The nice bit of town, where their dad Ezra tried and failed to build a happy home. And Dionne's block. Beautiful, extraordinary Dionne, the only person who had ever looked at them and seen what was there.

Back then, overwhelmed and full of fear, they sank beneath the surface into chaos. But they made it out alive. And this time, Rothko is determined that things will be different.

A decade since Kae Tempest's last novel, Having Spent Life Seeking is about family and forgiveness; redemption and atonement; desire and abandon; selfhood and community. The things we seek when we are hiding, and what finds us, if we can let ourselves be seen.

'If books can still change the world, this one most likely will' COLUM MCCANN

'A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel' IRVINE WELSH

'Amazing, it really moved me' SHON FAYE

'A hallelujah of a book. A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness' DAWN FRENCH

'Kae Tempest at his finest' ANTHONY SHAPLAND

'Unboundedly beautiful' MICHAEL PEDERSEN

© Kae Tempest 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

 Family Life Genre Fiction LGBTQIA+ İçerik Üreticileri Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural
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Thrilling... With Kae’s trademark tenderness and empathy, his love for these characters shines through the pages. Trust me, you will love them, too (Dua Lipa)
A master-craftsman of deep feeling and linguistic intimacy (Max Porter)
A wonderful, moving and enlightening state-of-Britain novel stuffed with memorable characters, depicting an individual’s struggle for self-realization in a society punitive to those who refuse to stand in its prescribed boxes (Irvine Welsh)
Amazing, it really moved me... Not something I've encountered in British literary fiction before (Shon Faye)
Unboundedly beautiful. Having Spent Life Seeking rings the heart like a bell (Michael Pedersen)
Having Spent Life Seeking is Kae at his finest, his uncanny skill of focussing on detail, noticing and observing ordinariness – all while allowing slippery truths to surface in this gentle, volatile book (Anthony Shapland)
A hallelujah of a book. A scorching story of love, change, homecoming and forgiveness. Kae at his beautiful, brilliant, best (Dawn French)
Kae Tempest brings into the literary realm that which others choose to leave outside. This is a remarkable act of literary bravery. If books can still change the world, this one most likely will. Narrative-driven, stuffed with soul, brimming with brokenness, rife with repair, this is a book for our splintered times. In Tempest's hands, redemption travels faster than the speed of light (Colum McCann)
A pure beautiful love story... Reverberates through the reader's heart (Lemn Sissay)
Agile shifts in perspective allow Tempest to extend his 360-compassion as he brings marginalised lives into sharp focus; he writes brilliantly about addiction and desire, too. Tough and lyrical, it’s a tale of survival and becoming that earns the grace of its moving conclusion
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Kae’s voice is heartfelt, raw and beautiful. Each character is described with such humanity the reader/ listener falls for each one.

A powerful story of transformation told beautifully.

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I love the care and humanity that shines through in all Kae's work. As a trans man, to read a book and care about and empathise with all the main characters, whilst also recognising a very specific personal lived experience is such a gift. I'm so glad I made time to sink in and listen.

So worth waiting for! And so glad I listened to it first before I pick up my hard copy.

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I’m not even sure what to say. Trying to use my words to describe the most perfect book I’ve ever listened to, seems unworthy.
I love Kae and all his work and was lucky enough to see him live last year. I’d looked forward to this book, and my god, if you haven’t started it yet, brace yourself. I sobbed many times at the beauty and the horror of this story and felt so immersed at times, it’s just as unbearable.
I’m glad I chose the audiobook, because having Kae read this to you gives a richness, as only his voice can give.

This is a work of true genius, that you’ll only ever find in the words of Kae Tempest.

Just stunning

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I first read this book as soon as it came out, as I am a big Kae Tempest fan in all his creative forms, and I absolutely loved it. I felt like I hadn't read something as beautiful in a long time. I also kept imagining Kate's voice as I read through the pages, letting his musicality carry the words inside my head. Then I realised the audiobook was narrated by him, and I thought it ought to be amazing listening to him read his own words. And wow, it is absolutely brilliant. A whole new dimension opened up and everything had even more meaning when listening through Kate's voice. Don't miss out on this absolutely marvellous book, I promise you won't regret it

most beautiful book I've read or heard in a couple of years

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The narration was perfect but I expected nothing less from Kae Tempest. Moving, actually not just moving…devastating. Was an emotional wreck as points. So so good.

Extraordinarily good. I loved it.

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