Into Suez 1st Printing Edition

Davies writes with an intensity which is simultaneously disturbing and exhilarating; her prose has a marvellous lyricism whether she is describing the heat of Ismailia or the rain in Wales: Times Literary Supplement –Times Literary Supplement

Stevie Davies is one of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers whose unsentimental, quietly revelatory novels have cropped up on the Booker and Orange shortlists without ever quite converting to a major prize. Into Suez, her 11th novel, deserves to be the one that brings wider renown, as it presents the most fully realised fusion of her personal and political histories to date: Guardian Review An astonishing piece of writing, and writing a review is going to be like scrawling 77 per cent, well done at the bottom of a manuscript of A la recherche du temps perdu … a rich, subtle, intricate novel, writing with a type of imaginative power that is capable of transporting the reader into a world that is at once very far away and still very close: Planet: the Welsh Internationalist –The Guardian Planet Welsh Internationalist

Alongside Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow, Stevie Davies’ ambitious historical novel gained the accolade of one of the most exciting books of the year in the Guardian this week by author and journalist Margaret Drabble. She writes, Stevie Davies, in Into Suez (Parthian Books), tackles historical material in a novel that personalises the forces of imperialism and the British class system as it moves with ease from Egypt immediately after the second world war to the 21st century and back again. Davies has a fine eye for colour and place, and a keen recall of the sensations of childhood, and her characters are full of quirks and eccentricities while telling the story of a whole generation. the guardian –The Guardian parthianbooks.com

Stevie Davies is one of our most consistent and continually undervalued writers whose unsentimental, quietly revelatory novels have cropped up on the Booker and Orange shortlists without ever quite converting to a major prize. Into Suez, her 11th novel, deserves to be the one that brings wider renown, as it presents the most fully realised fusion of her personal and political histories to date: Guardian Review An astonishing piece of writing, and writing a review is going to be like scrawling 77 per cent, well done at the bottom of a manuscript of A la recherche du temps perdu … a rich, subtle, intricate novel, writing with a type of imaginative power that is capable of transporting the reader into a world that is at once very far away and still very close: Planet: the Welsh Internationalist –The Guardian Planet Welsh Internationalist