Reasons She Goes to the Woods
Author: Davies, Deborah Kay
ISBN: 9781780745312
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2014
Pages: 1 Format: Paperback / softback
Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she's just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery?
Told in vignettes across Pearl's childhood years, Reasons She Goes To The Woods is a nervy but lyrical novel about a normal girl growing up, doing the normal things little girls do...
'Outstanding... With black humour and heartrending accuracy. Davies is a poet, and this is a poet's novel in the very best sense - every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place' The Times
'A sexy, contrary book... also a story concerned with morality. The most sustained and challenging aspect of the narrative is its insistence about what a little girl is like' TLS
ISBN: 9781780745312
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 01 Aug 2014
Pages: 1 Format: Paperback / softback
Pearl can be very, very good. More often she is very, very bad. But she's just a child, a mystery to all who know her. A little girl who has her own secret reasons for escaping to the nearby woods. What might those reasons be? And how can she feel so at home in the dark, sinister, sensual woods, a wonder of secrets and mystery?
Told in vignettes across Pearl's childhood years, Reasons She Goes To The Woods is a nervy but lyrical novel about a normal girl growing up, doing the normal things little girls do...
'Outstanding... With black humour and heartrending accuracy. Davies is a poet, and this is a poet's novel in the very best sense - every word is pin-sharp and perfectly in its place' The Times
'A sexy, contrary book... also a story concerned with morality. The most sustained and challenging aspect of the narrative is its insistence about what a little girl is like' TLS
