A hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970s
Deborah Kay Davies Book order
Deborah Kay Davies began writing and publishing as a mature student, later teaching creative writing at Cardiff University. Her debut story collection, recognized with the Wales Book of the Year Award, delves into intricate relationships and the inner lives of her characters. Davies's work explores profound human emotions, often touching on themes of memory and identity. Her prose is precise and penetrating, offering readers a compelling look into the human psyche.
- 2018
- 2018
Part novel, part fantasy, part social history. More than anything it tells dark, universal tales about how utterly strange it is to learn to be human.
- 2014
Reasons She Goes to the Woods
- 249 pages
- 9 hours of reading
When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid!
- 2011
True Things About Me. A Novel
- 217 pages
- 8 hours of reading
One ordinary afternoon in a nameless town, a nameless young woman is at work in a benefits office. Ten minutes later, she is in an underground parking lot, slammed up against a wall, having sex with a stranger. What made her do this? How can she forget him? These are questions the young woman asks herself as she charts her deepening erotic obsession with painful, sometimes hilarious precision. With the crazy logic and hallucinatory clarity of an exhilarating, terrifying dream, told in chapters as short and surprising as snapshots, True Things About Me hurtles through the terrain of sexual obsession and asks what it is to know oneself and to test the limits of one's desires.
- 2011
True Things About Me
- 224 pages
- 8 hours of reading
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.
- 2006
Things You Think I Don't Know
- 60 pages
- 3 hours of reading
The poems blend the strange with the familiar, presenting vivid and unforgettable imagery. They take readers on a journey from the known into bizarre and fantastical realms, featuring surreal scenarios like a heron laying an egg on a bed and unexpected revelations from a routine test. This collection ultimately reveals the hidden magic in everyday life, transforming the ordinary into something both hilarious and haunting.