What A Time To Be Alive

What readers are saying about What A Time To Be Alive
'I know so many people will adore this as much as I did!'
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'Read if you love: Sally Rooney style messy relationships, relatable characters you don't want to stop reading about, and 20 somethings still figuring things out.'
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'I loved Okay Days so expectations were high - and I was not disappointed!! I absolutely loved this.'
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'Jenny mustard you have done it again.'
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Twenty-one and friendless, Sickan arrives at Stockholm University utterly unprepared for adult life. After a chronically lonely childhood, the city represents a fresh start, a chance to finally make friends and the right kind of mistakes. And just as Sickan begins to fit in, she meets Abbe: beautiful, confident, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too.
Tender and intelligent, What A Time To Be Alive is a story about class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. About asking yourself the question: how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice to simply be normal?
A New York Times Editors' Choice
'A fresh, tender, and resonant bildungsroman'
R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit
'A measured and gorgeous writer, in command of the senses in a way that makes the reader feel alive'
New York Times
'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief'
Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls
'A dark coming-of-age story set in Stockholm [with] a really light touch that makes it really beautiful'
Natasha Brown, author of Universality

Jenny Mustard is a writer and social media influencer, born in Sweden but living in London. She has over 600k followers, and more than 50 million views on YouTube. Jenny and her work have featured in the Observer, the Independent, Vogue and elsewhere. Her debut novel, Okay Days, was published in 2023.