Stevie Davies is a novelist, literary critic, biographer, and historian. Her work often delves into the complexities of the human psyche and societal norms. Davies explores themes of identity, memory, and the search for truth within her writing.
Jess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury withher husband Jacob for many years. He is solid,dependable, beautiful to her. She is contentedto be his wife, to look after his elderly mother,aunt and cousin, to be a pillar of their family andcommunity. Then, suddenly, everything changes.
Mark gradually ingratiates himself into the life of his nex-door neighbour Freya, who is struggling with the death of her own husband. Freya - lost in a sea of grief - only slowly begins to realise that Mark's motives may not be quite as compassionate as they seem and her eyes are opened to the treat she has guilelessly invited into her home.
In pre-war Germany, two boys grow up together inseparable. However, as adulthood approaches and Nazism continues its inexorable march, Dahl and Quantz can no longer reconcile their childhood friendship as one becomes an SS officer and the other a pawn in the intelligence unit.
Arrest Me For I Have Run Away is a stunning short story collection on human nature and identity. Stevie Davies' latest work, it is bound to captivate and charm the reader.
Sebastian has long been haunted by the disappearance of his father, the celebrated travel writer Jack Messenger. When the the enigmatic Rhys Salvatore re-emerges and throws all Sebastian thinks he knows about his father into doubt, the son is forced to ponder: how does Salvatore know Sebastian, and what are his connections to Jack Messenger?
From: http://www.amazon.com/Awakening-Stevi... 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. Fetishist of working women Arthur Munby, irascible antiquary General Pitt Rivers, feminist Barbara Bodichon and other historical figures of the Victorian epoch wander through the backdrop of the novel, as Anna's anomalous love for Lore Ritter and her friendship with freethinking and ambitious Miriam Sala carry her into areas of uncharted desire - while Beatrice, forced to choose between her beloved Will Anwyl and the evangelist Christian Ritter, who marked her out as a wife when she was only a child, is pulled between passion and duty. Each is riven by inner contradictions, but who will survive when the sisters fall into a fatal conflict with one another?
1949: Egypt's struggle against its British occupiers moves towards crisis; Israel declares its statehood, driving out the Arabs. Joe Roberts, an RAF sergeant, his wife Ailsa and daughter, Nia, leave Wales for Egypt.
Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady atmosphere of the Sixties—a decade in which the conventions of family and kinship are overturned. Years later, as Mara begins to confront the questions surrounding Frankie's death, she is drawn back into their secret past and the struggles of a generation betrayed by its own values. Stevie Davies’ last novel, The Element of Water, was longlisted for the 2004 Booker and Orange Prizes.
To accompany a season of drama documentaries on Channel 4, Stevie Davies tells the political and social history of England in the 17th century.
Meet Eileen Nussey James, a self-professed expert on Emily Bronte and her passion; Marianne Pendleton, an overworked lecturer and slave to domesticity; Timothy Whitty, the widower who receives nocturnal visits from Emily's ghost; and Sharon Mitchell, a waitress drawn into the world of academia.