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PUBLISHER: Canongate Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781847678317
RRP: £7.99
PAGES: 224
PUBLICATION DATE:
March 3, 2011
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True Things About Me
Deborah Kay Davies
From their first encounter, late one night in an underground car park, the narrator of True Things About Me is intoxicated by a stranger who seems to overwhelm her quiet life. But beneath the surface something takes hold that will drive her to extremes of pleasure – and finally, on a cold and eerie night, to face up to her fate.
Reviews of True Things About Me
'Glinting with pitch-black humour, Davies's razor-edged style has a lucidity and ferocity that makes much "literary" prose sound like soggy mush.' Independent
Deborah Kay Davies
Deborah Kay Davies started writing and publishing when she was a mature student at Cardiff University. Her first collection of stories, Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful, won the 2009 Wales book of the Year Award. She has also published a collection of poems, Things You Think I Don’t Know.
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