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Since publishing her first, critically acclaimed novel English Correspondence, Janet Davey has become known for her ability to write brilliantly about characters driven to break free of the self-imposed limits and social conventions that hem them in. Candia McWilliam says of her work, 'It secures one's faith in the moral force of art'.

Davey's third novel opens with a chance meeting between Abe and Richard in a taxi queue outside Paddington station. Abe is in his early twenties, a time when life is still fluid. Richard is married with two daughters. He and his wife, Vivienne, live in suburban security in Middlesex and attend an evangelical Christian church. Yet Richard's meeting with Abe opens a door he thought he had closed forever. With Vivienne and the children away on a skiing holiday, he invites Abe into his house - an impulsive action that will send ripples not only through his own life and that of his wife, but through the fragile existence of Abe's younger sister Kirsty, who is herself unsure what is the best way to 'settle down'.

Set on the peripheries of London - in Harrow, Crystal Palace and Kensal Rise - this remarkable novel places centre-stage the events and emotions of ordinary life that rarely find their way into fiction of this quality. Davey has an extraordinary talent for digging away the accidents of fate that define us to find the truth of who we are.



About the Author :
Janet Davey was born in 1953 and published her first novel when she was forty-nine. She lives in Pimlico, London.

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A touching story of loneliness, sexual confusion and family ties Davey is a beautiful writer She is able to create intimacy brilliantly...Davey's eye wanders appreciatively over physical objects, while sounds, colours and shapes are all beautifully observed. Subtle and challenging...attempts something radical with the fictional form: it eludes novelistic norms in favour of something more like life Davey is a deft observer of the inequalities of nature that exist within families It’s the routines of everyday living that Davey so vividly records; her complicated characters are never wholly likeable and, as life flows on, she contrives no neat, tidy endings


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781407014685
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1407014684
  • Publisher Date: 14 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)


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