Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful

Deborah Kay Davies

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Part novel, part fantasy, part social history, this collection of short stories set in the valleys of South Wales follows the lives of two sisters, Grace and Tamar. As these dark, universal stories detail their volatile sibling rivalry--on several occasions they almost kill each other--their disruptive coming of age, and dubious maturity, they express how utterly strange it is to learn to become human. While each story is complete in its own right, together they form a continuous and powerful sequence

Book Details

Publisher: Parthian
Publish Date: Feb 24th, 2019
Pages: 165
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
EAN: 9781912109432
Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Family Life - General• Literary

About the Author

Deborah Kay Davies taught Creative Writing at Cardiff University, where she earned her PhD. After the publication of her debut novel True Things About Me (Canongate, 2010), the BBC TV Culture Show named her as one of the 12 best new British novelists. Lionel Shriver in The Wall Street Journal chose it as her personal Book of the Year. Dr. Becky Munford is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University.

Praise for this book

"Deborah Kay Davies has achieved something rare: a collection of stories wherein each story is complete in its own right (many were competition winners or radio broadcasts) but which also work together as a novella-length sequence." -- The Independent