Awakening - Hardcover

Stevie Davies's latest novel, her 12th, is charged with sensitivity to the otherness of the past [...] and 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, The Guardian
Davies has written a thought-provoking book which captures the era [...] and is at times very funny [...] but the underlying message is serious as Davies charts the first real stirrings, or awakenings, of feminism --Paul Rees, Western Mail

George Eliot would be impressed -- The Historical Novel Society

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. The Independent

These are the real histories... of those people who have been not so much forgotten by history as deliberately written out of it... You leave these pages feeling more fully conscious of yourself and the world around you than you did when you began them. What more can you ask for from a book? New Welsh Review

One of our most consistent and undervalued writers whose unsentimental, quietly revelatory novels have [continually] cropped up on the Booker and Orange shortlists --The Guardian
Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating; her prose has a marvellous lyricism --Times Literary Supplement --Helen Dunmore, The Guardian

Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating; her prose has a marvellous lyricism --Times Literary Supplement

Stevie Davies has won numerous awards for her fiction, and has been long-listed for the Booker and Orange Prizes. Several of her books have been adapted into radio and screenplays. Stevie lives in her home-town of Swansea, where she is Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University. She is a passionate sea-swimmer, cyclist and walker on the Gower.