<p><b>'Playful and witty, <i>What A Time To Be Alive</i> is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief' </b><br>Cecile Pin, author of <i>Wandering Souls</i><br><br><b>'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth'</b><br>Aysegul Savas, author of <i>The Anthropologists</i><br><br><b>'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . . will go straight to your heart'</b><br>Lucy Caldwell, author of <i>These Days</i><br><br><b>'A timeless writer . . . reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani'</b><br>Molly Aitken, author of <i>Bright I Burn</i><br><br><b>Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance. </b><br><br>Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for inti