Another Mother's Son by Janet Davey
‘We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present' Tessa Hadley on Janet Davey Lorna Parry lives with her three sons, each one lurching uncomfortably into adulthood. In the claustrophobic loneliness of her own home, Lorna orbits around her sons and struggles to talk to them; she’s still angry at her ex-husband, uncomfortable around her father’s new girlfriend, and works quietly as the only employee left in a deserted London archive. Life seems precariously balanced. Then a shocking event occurs in the stationery cupboard at the boys’ school and her world threatens to implode. Praised for her taut and subtle prose, Janet Davey returns with an unsettling new novel about family and strangers. Her portrait of lives at crisis point is a masterful study in rendering the everyday beautiful and surprising.
Funny, shrewd and desolating- a novel that makes you look and think twice -- Kate Kellaway * Observer Books of the Year *
Ambitious, clever.. By the end of this book you feel profoundly disturbed and enlightened * Evening Standard *
Quietly menacing * Mail on Sunday *
We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present * Tessa Hadley *
A well-written, very well-observed and quietly effective portrayal of the tribulations of middle age -- Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *
Ambitious, clever.. By the end of this book you feel profoundly disturbed and enlightened * Evening Standard *
Quietly menacing * Mail on Sunday *
We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present * Tessa Hadley *
A well-written, very well-observed and quietly effective portrayal of the tribulations of middle age -- Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *
Janet Davey was born in 1953. She is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize, First Aid, The Taxi Queue and By Battersea Bridge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784740221 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784740225 |
| Title | Another Mother's Son |
| Author | Janet Davey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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