Deborah Kay Davies Boeken

One ordinary afternoon in a nameless town, a nameless young woman is at work in a benefits office. Ten minutes later, she is in an underground parking lot, slammed up against a wall, having sex with a stranger. What made her do this? How can she forget him? These are questions the young woman asks herself as she charts her deepening erotic obsession with painful, sometimes hilarious precision. With the crazy logic and hallucinatory clarity of an exhilarating, terrifying dream, told in chapters as short and surprising as snapshots, True Things About Me hurtles through the terrain of sexual obsession and asks what it is to know oneself and to test the limits of one's desires.

Part novel, part fantasy, part social history. More than anything it tells dark, universal tales about how utterly strange it is to learn to be human.

The poems blend the strange with the familiar, presenting vivid and unforgettable imagery. They take readers on a journey from the known into bizarre and fantastical realms, featuring surreal scenarios like a heron laying an egg on a bed and unexpected revelations from a routine test. This collection ultimately reveals the hidden magic in everyday life, transforming the ordinary into something both hilarious and haunting.

When she was good she was very, very good. But when she was bad she was horrid!

A hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age tale set in the Welsh valleys of the 1970s

Deborah Kay Davies was named 'one to watch' by the Independent. She was also selected as 'one of the twelve best new British novelists' by The Culture Show and the Guardian.