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Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends, growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the Fifties, within an extended family that thrives on gossip, petty feuds and innuendo. Mara is a difficult but loved child whilst Frankie is rebellious, fired by an intense emotional hunger. The two develop a strange mutual dependence in which love, jealousy, hate and rivalry intermingle. They come of age in the Sixties - a decade in which notions of family and kinship are being overturned in favor of 'free love', sexual experimentation and social revolution. But that dream turns sour and a bitter battle of wills results...
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the overall warm clarity with which she animates these two soul-sisters experience. (Alfred Hickling THE GUARDIAN)
Stevie Davies always writes well about the nastier moments of family life. (THE INDEPENDENT)
Davies draws her characters with a loving but honest eye, and despite the sense of impending tragedy, there is a thread of subtle humour running through the book. (Zoe Green DAILY TELEGRAPH)
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'What's remarkable about KITH & KIN is Davies' sensual evocation of ... the bonds of blood and love. Beautifully unflinching.' Daily Mail
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