Tenants

by Hannah Sullivan

Chronicling the empty spaces of Sullivan's West London neighbourhood, Tenants is an exploration of how we live now - in isolation and in common. Verse, reportage and photographs create a tapestry of scenes and voices that move between moments of past and present uncertainty: flashbacks to a V2 strike; utopian plans; contemporary urban terror; post-partum anxiety; and, at the absent centre of it all, Grenfell Tower and the shame it continues to provoke. Appearing uniquely as an illustrated digital book, this extract will be followed by full book publication in 2022. An earlier version was staged in 2019 at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. Formally ambitious, fluid and haunting, this elegiac piece is further evidence that Sullivan 'writes freshly about everything' (Observer) and 'can - it seems - do just about anything' (Poetry Review).

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Published July 5, 2022

About the author

Hannah Sullivan, born in California, currently lives in Idaho with her husband and children. An avid reader and runner, she decided to try her hand at writing when her daughter asked for a more "grown-up" version of the family THUNDER stories. So, doing what any mother would do, she said, "Yes, why not?" And started to write. With some fantastic help and new friendships, a novel was born! Her first novel, "THUNDER: The Shadows Are Stirring," is an Amazon bestseller. Her second, "FIVE WEEKS: a Lifetime," a memoir comprised of journal entries, letters and emails - is the legacy of one small boy's lifetime. It reached the bestseller lists, in both the US and the UK, just hours after it was published.