Awakening by Stevie Davies
Wiltshire 1860: One year after Darwin's explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism and the stirrings of feminist rebellion; a world of charismatic religious movements, Spiritualist seances, bitter loss and medical trauma.
'George Eliot would be impressed' Historical Novel Society Review 'Stevie Davies's latest novel, her 12th, is charged with sensitivity to the otherness of the past [...] her social comedy breathes life into an oppressive world. [...] Awakening burns with anger against the abuses of the past, while recognising that the present has no right to condescend.' Helen Dunmore, Guardian 'Davies weaves this intricate web of faltering, painful relationships with great skill and writes very powerfully and movingly about the subtle half-tones and tentativeness of love, of childbirth, of loss as well as the horribly intrusive shock of male Victorian medical practice towards women.' Independent
Stevie Davies has won numerous awards for her fiction, and has been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes. Several of her books have been adapted into radio and screenplays. Stevie lives in her home-town of Swansea, where she is Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University. She is a passionate sea-swimmer, cyclist and walker on the Gower.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781909844704 |
| ISBN 10 | 1909844705 |
| Title | Awakening |
| Author | Stevie Davies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Parthian Books |
| Year published | 2014-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 350 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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