In
The Eyrie Stevie has created an unforgettable character in
the figure of ‘Red Dora’, the 92-year-old Socialist
veteran of the Spanish Civil War. Set in Oystermouth, the
novel, which asks profound questions about the modern world,
is alive with humour, pathos and beauty.
The new novel is the first part of her two-book
contract with Weidenfeld: Stevie has lately returned from
Egypt, where she was researching the second book, the epic
novel, Into Suez, set in the 1950s in the run-up to the Suez
invasion - to be published by Weidenfeld in February 2008.
AL Kennedy 3rd February 2007
The Guardian:
"Davies just writes, very precisely, sometimes wonderfully
- sometimes fiction, sometimes non-fiction - and always from
the heart. She does what a writer does - making beauty for
strangers, passing it on."
Read
AL Kennedy's review of The Eyrie
Murrough O’Brien in the
Independent on Sunday:
‘It is deeply joyful, and magically written, as full
of sea swell as of rasping barnacles.’
Nicolette Jones in the Independent:
'Davies has a tantalising way of writing glancingly about
the important developments, leaving the reader eager to know
what happened. Meanwhile inconsequentialities, lightly handled
in conversational prose and varied voices, accrete like mineral
deposits, until they make something substantial and solid.
Enjoy at leisure.'
Saga Magazine:
'Davies deals sensitively but unsentimentally with lives less
ordinary than they seem, writing with warmth and wit, with
and against the currents of modern living.'
The Sunday Times 25 February
2007:
‘Deftly mapping the [characters’] interactions,
and the unwelcome infractions of the outside world, Davies’s
novel exhibits an agile wit, an intuitive understanding of
human nature, and an unsentimental clarity in its personalising
of the political.’
Daily Telegraph 24 February 2007:
'...acute and compassionate observations.' |
