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Reasons She Goes to the Woods: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014
Deborah Kay Davies
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Description for Reasons She Goes to the Woods: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014
Paperback. When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid! Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
'Exquisite... To be marvelled at.' Guardian
Shortlisted for the Encore Award
Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she’s just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery?
Told in vignettes across Pearl’s childhood years, Reasons She Goes ... Read more is a nervy but lyrical novel about a normal girl growing up, doing the normal things little girls do.
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780745312
SKU
V9781780745312
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99-50
About Deborah Kay Davies
Deborah Kay Davies won the Wales Book of the Year 2009 award with her first work of fiction, the short-story collection Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful. When her debut novel, True Things About Me, came out in 2010, she was selected by BBC TV as one of the twelve best new British novelists. And when the novel was published in New York ... Read more
Reviews for Reasons She Goes to the Woods: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN´S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014
‘Exquisite…to be marvelled at.’
Guardian
‘Outstanding… Davies is a poet, and this is a poet’s novel in the very best sense – every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place.’
The Times
‘Pearl is a marvellously contradictory creation, showing the cruelty in children as well as their neediness, their capacity for love and friendship... Davies’ novel ... Read more
Guardian
‘Outstanding… Davies is a poet, and this is a poet’s novel in the very best sense – every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place.’
The Times
‘Pearl is a marvellously contradictory creation, showing the cruelty in children as well as their neediness, their capacity for love and friendship... Davies’ novel ... Read more