Cosmic Interference
Dinah Birch: Janet Davey’s Fiction, 8 October 2015
Another Mother’s Son
by Janet Davey.
Chatto, 296 pp., £12.99, August 2015,978 1 78474 022 1 Show More
by Janet Davey.
Chatto, 296 pp., £12.99, August 2015,
“... within her chosen genre. Davey’s work is also allied to the tradition of novelists like Jean Rhys, Barbara Pym or Anita Brookner, who quietly insist on the persistence of alienation, domestic or otherwise, in women’s lives. Breakdowns in communication between the sexes punctuate her dialogue. ‘She could see him thinking she was an odd girl ... ”