True Things About Me
- 3 Mar 2011
- 9781847678317
- £9.99
- 224 pp
- 129×198mm
- 1 Jul 2010
- 9781847679130
- £7.99
- 224 pp
In a few words
Deborah Kay Davies was named ‘one to watch’ by the Independent. She was also selected as ‘one of the twelve best new British novelists’ by The Culture Show and the Guardian.
In a few words
Enter the world of a woman about to risk it all…
Brutal, funny . . . One of those rare novels that is genuinely about sex, in all its irrationality and potential for self-destruction
Affecting and well described...[with] searing observations of human behaviour
Joanna Briscoe
GuardianGlinting with pitch-black humour, Davies's razor-edged style has a lucidity and ferocity that makes much "literary" prose sound like soggy mush
Exquisitely written
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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.
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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.
Glinting with pitch-black humour, Davies's razor-edged style has a lucidity and ferocity that makes much "literary" prose sound like soggy mush
Exquisitely written
A little book that packs a huge punch...Davies handles the horrifying climax with control and assurance
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
A little book that packs a huge punch...Davies handles the horrifying climax with control and assurance
Affecting and well described...[with] searing observations of human behaviour
Joanna Briscoe
GuardianA 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
Davies is causing a stir in the books world
Deborah Kay Davies
View profileDeborah 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.
Deborah Kay Davies
View profileDeborah 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.
