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True Things about Me
Deborah Kay Davies
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Description for True Things about Me
Paperback. Enter the world of a woman about to risk it all.. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160. Enter the world of a woman about to risk it all. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 129 x 16. Weight: 160.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION FILM CALLED TRUE THINGS
From their first encounter, late one night in an underground car park, the narrator of True Things About Me is intoxicated by a stranger who seems to overwhelm her quiet life. But beneath the surface something takes hold that will drive her to extremes of pleasure - and finally, on a cold and eerie night to face up to her fate.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847678317
SKU
V9781847678317
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About Deborah Kay Davies
Deborah Kay Davies started writing and publishing when she was a mature student at Cardiff University. Her first collection of stories, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, won the 2009 Wales book of the Year Award. She has also published a collection of poems, Things You Think I Don't Know.
Reviews for True Things about Me
Brutal, funny . . . One of those rare novels that is genuinely about sex, in all its irrationality and potential for self-destruction
Lionel Shriver
Affecting and well described...[with] searing observations of human behaviour
Joanna Briscoe
Guardian
Glinting with pitch-black humour, Davies's razor-edged style has a lucidity and ferocity that makes much "literary" prose sound like soggy mush
Independent
Exquisitely written
Daily Express
A little book that packs a huge punch...Davies handles the horrifying climax with control and assurance
The Times
A kind of hybrid of Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Maggie O'Farrell's My Lover's Lover, and one of Sophie Hannah's twisted stories. Memorable, troubling and surprisingly funny in places
Financial Times
Davies is causing a stir in the books world
Observer
If darkness has brilliant, this is it
Tom Adair
Scotsman
Andrew Motion has complained - at least, I assume it was a complaint - that so few entries for the Man Booker Prize this year dared to write seriously about sex. What a shame, then, that one book that did so with coruscating verve and zest failed to trouble the judges. True Things About Me (Canongate) by the Welsh writer Deborah Kay Davies (right) is also a first novel: a category absent from the 2010 long-list. Her first-person narrative of a young woman's obsessive, destructive affair has an unsettling pitch-black wit that truly makes its voice stand out from the bland MOR murmur of most "literary" fiction. Still, the Booker is not the only prize: other juries, take note
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Like nothing I've ever read...full of unexpected beauty and humour. It's like The Bell Jar for the twenty-first century
Trezza Azzopardi
Lionel Shriver
Affecting and well described...[with] searing observations of human behaviour
Joanna Briscoe
Guardian
Glinting with pitch-black humour, Davies's razor-edged style has a lucidity and ferocity that makes much "literary" prose sound like soggy mush
Independent
Exquisitely written
Daily Express
A little book that packs a huge punch...Davies handles the horrifying climax with control and assurance
The Times
A kind of hybrid of Janice Galloway's The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Maggie O'Farrell's My Lover's Lover, and one of Sophie Hannah's twisted stories. Memorable, troubling and surprisingly funny in places
Financial Times
Davies is causing a stir in the books world
Observer
If darkness has brilliant, this is it
Tom Adair
Scotsman
Andrew Motion has complained - at least, I assume it was a complaint - that so few entries for the Man Booker Prize this year dared to write seriously about sex. What a shame, then, that one book that did so with coruscating verve and zest failed to trouble the judges. True Things About Me (Canongate) by the Welsh writer Deborah Kay Davies (right) is also a first novel: a category absent from the 2010 long-list. Her first-person narrative of a young woman's obsessive, destructive affair has an unsettling pitch-black wit that truly makes its voice stand out from the bland MOR murmur of most "literary" fiction. Still, the Booker is not the only prize: other juries, take note
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
Like nothing I've ever read...full of unexpected beauty and humour. It's like The Bell Jar for the twenty-first century
Trezza Azzopardi