Awakening - Softcover

Davies, Stevie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909844705 ISBN 13: 9781909844704

Publisher: Parthian Books, 2015

Synopsis

One year after Darwin’s explosive publication of The Origin of Species, sisters Anna and Beatrice Pentecost awaken to a world shattered by science, radicalism, and the stirrings of feminist rebellion. But society is not the only thing wracked by tumult and torment: Anna’s anomalous love for Lore Ritter and her friendship with the freethinking and ambitious Miriam Sala carry her into areas of uncharted desire, while Beatrice is forced to choose between her beloved Will Anwyl and the evangelist Christian Ritter. Each is riven by inner contradictions, but who will survive when the sisters fall into a fatal conflict with one another?

About this title

About the Author:

Stevie Davies is a writer who has won numerous awards for her fiction, and has been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes. She is a professor of creative writing at Swansea University.

Review:

'George Eliot would be impressed.' Historical Novel Society Review 'Stevie Davies's latest novel, her 12th, is charged with sensitivity to the otherness of the past [...] her social comedy breathes life into an oppressive world. [...] Awakening burns with anger against the abuses of the past, while recognising that the present has no right to condescend.' Helen Dunmore, Guardian 'Davies weaves this intricate web of faltering, painful relationships with great skill and writes very powerfully and movingly about the subtle half-tones and tentativeness of love, of childbirth, of loss as well as the horribly intrusive shock of male Victorian medical practice towards women.' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Parthian Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1909844705
• ISBN 13: 9781909844704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336