The Taxi Queue - Hardcover
Since publishing her first, critically acclaimed novel English Correspondence, Janet Davey has become known for her ability to write brilliantly about characters driven to break free of the self-imposed limits and social conventions that hem them in. Candia McWilliam says of her work, 'It secures one's faith in the moral force of art'.
Davey's third novel opens with a chance meeting between Abe and Richard in a taxi queue outside Paddington station. Abe is in his early twenties, a time when life is still fluid. Richard is married with two daughters. He and his wife, Vivienne, live in suburban security in Middlesex and attend an evangelical Christian church. Yet Richard's meeting with Abe opens a door he thought he had closed for ever. With Vivienne and the children away on a skiing holiday, he invites Abe into his house - an impulsive action that will send ripples not only through his own life and that of his wife, but through the fragile existence of Abe's younger sister Kirsty, who is herself unsure what is the best way to 'settle down'.
Set on the peripheries of London - in Harrow, Crystal Palace and Kensal Rise - this remarkable novel places centre-stage the events and emotions of ordinary life that rarely find their way into fiction of this quality. Davey has an extraordinary talent for digging away the accidents of fate that define us to find the truth of who we are.
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'Davey is a beautiful writer.'
-- FT Magazine
'Not since Penelope Fitzgerald's pen was stilled has there been so
transcendent and workmanlike a novelist in English' -- Candia McWilliam
'She writes beautifully, simply and with absolute truth...one of
the best modern novels I've read for quite some time'
-- Miranda Seymour
'The Taxi Queue is about the indulgence of forbidden desire and
its repercussions'
-- Daily Telegraph: Rev'd Claudia Fitzherbert
'persevere with The Taxi Queue and life becomes a little richer' -- The Daily Mail
`...subtle and challenging'
--The Guardian
`As ever, Janet Davey is excellent at exploring what drives people
to step outside the norms and how they deal with the aftermath.'
--The Herald
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-- FT Magazine
'Not since Penelope Fitzgerald's pen was stilled has there been so
transcendent and workmanlike a novelist in English' -- Candia McWilliam
'She writes beautifully, simply and with absolute truth...one of
the best modern novels I've read for quite some time'
-- Miranda Seymour
'The Taxi Queue is about the indulgence of forbidden desire and
its repercussions'
-- Daily Telegraph: Rev'd Claudia Fitzherbert
'persevere with The Taxi Queue and life becomes a little richer' -- The Daily Mail
`...subtle and challenging'
--The Guardian
`As ever, Janet Davey is excellent at exploring what drives people
to step outside the norms and how they deal with the aftermath.'
--The Herald
Third novel from the remarkable novelist whose first book, published when she was nearly fifty, was a critical triumph. She has been compared to Jean Rhys.
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0701181052
- ISBN 13 9780701181055
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages208
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