Janet Davey was born in 1953. She is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the 2002 Orange Prize, First Aid, The Taxi Queue and By Battersea Bridge.
Funny, shrewd and desolating- a novel that makes you look and think twice -- Kate Kellaway * Observer Books of the Year * Ambitious, clever... By the end of this book you feel profoundly disturbed and enlightened * Evening Standard * Quietly menacing * Mail on Sunday * We’re lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present * Tessa Hadley * A well-written, very well-observed and quietly effective portrayal of the tribulations of middle age -- Harry Ritchie * Daily Mail *