Kith and Kin: na - Softcover

Davies, Stevie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753820188 ISBN 13: 9780753820186

Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2004

Synopsis

'Stevie Davies's KITH & KIN is a moving, scalpel-sharp story of close family relationships...The writing is urgent and surprising, the tale at its most hilarious when it is bitter and bizarre...I couldn't put this book down until I had finished it'

Patricia Duncker

Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s, amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady atmosphere of the Sixties - a decade in which the conventions of family and kinship are overturned. Years later, as Mara begins to confront the questions surrounding Frankie's death, she is drawn back into their secret past and the struggles of a generation betrayed by its own values.

About this title

About the Author

Stevie Davies is the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Swansea University and is a novelist, historian and literary critic. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has written many prize winning books including The Element of Water which was longlisted for both the Booker and Orange Prizes and won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year award; and Kith and Kin, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize. http://www.steviedavies.com/

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753820188
• ISBN 13: 9780753820186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272