Reasons She Goes to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies
When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid!‘Exquisite…to be marvelled at’
* Guardian *‘Outstanding… Davies is a poet, and this is a poet’s novel in the very best sense – every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place.’
* The Times *‘Pearl is a marvellously contradictory creation, showing the cruelty in children as well as their neediness, their capacity for love and friendship... Davies’ novel reads almost like a prose poem.’
* Independent on Sunday *‘A sexy, contrary book…also a story concerned with morality. The most sustained and challenging aspect of the narrative is its insistence about what a little girl is like.’
* Times Literary Supplement *‘Brutal, funny... One of those rare novels that is genuinely about sex, in all its irrationality and potential for self-destruction.’
* Lionel Shriver, author of We Need to Talk About Kevin *‘Best for highbrow sun lounging…told with a gothic, sensual style that Angela Carter would be proud of.’
* Grazia *‘Raw, lyrical, sad, this haunting story packs a deceivingly strong punch.’
* Publishers Weekly *‘Dark, beautifully descriptive and rather haunting.’
* Grazia Daily *‘A spiky echo of Angela Carter, with whom Ms Davies at her best stands fair comparison… The language is fresh, the imagery striking…and Pearl herself is a rampant, compelling, fully-realised, wild-eyed, teary creation.’
* The Scotsman *‘A poetic and strange novel, full of flair.’
* Emerald Street *‘A rounded, complex portrait of growing-up that has an atmosphere all of its own.’
* We Love This Book *
Praise for True Things About Me
‘In this wallop of a little novel... Ms. Davies writes with such spunk that you stay with her for much of the ride’ New York Times
Deborah Kay Davies won the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award with her first work of fiction, the short-story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful. When her debut novel, True Things About Me, came out in 2010, she was selected by BBC TV as one of the twelve best new British novelists. And when the novel was published in New York in 2011, Lionel Shriver chose it as her personal book of the year. Her second novel, Reasons She Goes to the Woods, was longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014. She lives in Cardiff.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780743769 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780743769 |
| Title | Reasons She Goes to the Woods |
| Author | Deborah Kay Davies |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oneworld Publications |
| Year published | 2014-02-06 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The Encore Award 2015 (UK), Long-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2014 (UK) |
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