The Taxi Queue
$26.80
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
15 August 2008
Summary
The third novel from the hugely acclaimed Janet Davey.
“A touching story of loneliness, sexual confusion and family ties” - Guardian
Two men meet by chance in the taxi queue outside Paddington station one January night. Richard is in his mid-forties, apparently happily married, with two children. Abe is young, and casually manipulative. The men share a taxi and, on impulse, Richard invites Abe into his home—an action that sends ripples not only through his own life and that of…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099506966 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099506963 |
| Author: | Janet Davey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 155g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 13mm |
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Critics Review
Not since Penelope Fitzgerald’s pen was stilled has there been so transcendent and workmanlike a novel in English
Not since Penelope Fitzgerald’s pen was stilled has there been so transcendent and workmanlike a novel in English – Candia McWilliam
Davey is a beautiful writer * Financial Times *
[A] skillful handling of words. She is able to create intimacy brilliantly…beautifully observed * Time Out *
Subtle and challenging…attempts something radical with the fictional form: it eludes novelistic norms in favour of something more like life * Guardian *
Davey is a deft observer of the inequalities of nature that exist within families * Daily Telegraph *
A novel that feels more like real life than any other book you will read this year * Independent *
With the lightest of touches this beguiling novelist expounds the dilemmas of contemporary living * Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Janet Davey
Janet Davey is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize, First Aid and By Battersea Bridge. She lives in London.
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