- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (8 Feb 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297851411
- ISBN-13: 978-0297851417
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,024,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Davies just writes, very percisely, sometimes wonderfully... she does what a writer does - making beauty for strangers, passing it on.' (AL Kennedy THE GUARDIAN )
'Davies has a tantalising way of writing glancingly about the important developments, leaving the reader eager to know what happened.' (Nicolette Jones THE INDEPENDENT )
'it is deeply joyful, and magically written, as full of sea swell as of rasping barnacles.' (Murrough O'Brien THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'If you've never read one of Davies's novels, make this the first and we guarantee it won't be the last.' (Shauna Bartlett GLAMOUR MAGAZINE )
'Making politics a central feature of a novel that isnt primarily about a political situation (as a war novel, for example, might be) is a tricky thing to pull off, and it happens so rarely that it is wonderful to see it here, but Davies is expert enough at creating believable characters to avoid making clunky assumptions about conflict or the impact it has. And those characters are both memorable as well as believable (Amy Mathieson THE SCOTSMAN )
'Davies deals sensitively but unsentimentally with lives less ordinary than they seem, writing with warmth and wit, with and against the currents of modern living.' (SAGA )
In THE EYRIE, Davies writes beautifully, compassionately and has a fine perspective of geographical and social history.' (Gwyn Griffiths THE MORNING STAR )
'Davies's novel exhibits an agile wit, an intuitive understanding of human nature and an unstentimental clarity in its personification of the political.' (Trevor Lewis THE SUNDAY TIMES )
'consolation, in its many forms, is THE EYRIE'S driving impulse - and it is offered toteh reader as well as to the characters.' (Kasia Boddy THE DAILY TELEGRAPH )
'In THE EYRIE, Davies writes beautifully, compassionately and has a fine perspective of geographical and social history.' (THE MORNING STAR )
'Davies has a tantalising way of writing glancingly about the important developments, leaving the reader eager to know what happened.' (Nicolette Jones THE INDEPENDENT )
'it is deeply joyful, and magically written, as full of sea swell as of rasping barnacles.' (Murrough O'Brien THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )
'If you've never read one of Davies's novels, make this the first and we guarantee it won't be the last.' (Shauna Bartlett GLAMOUR MAGAZINE )
'Making politics a central feature of a novel that isnt primarily about a political situation (as a war novel, for example, might be) is a tricky thing to pull off, and it happens so rarely that it is wonderful to see it here, but Davies is expert enough at creating believable characters to avoid making clunky assumptions about conflict or the impact it has. And those characters are both memorable as well as believable (Amy Mathieson THE SCOTSMAN )
'Davies deals sensitively but unsentimentally with lives less ordinary than they seem, writing with warmth and wit, with and against the currents of modern living.' (SAGA )
In THE EYRIE, Davies writes beautifully, compassionately and has a fine perspective of geographical and social history.' (Gwyn Griffiths THE MORNING STAR )
'Davies's novel exhibits an agile wit, an intuitive understanding of human nature and an unstentimental clarity in its personification of the political.' (Trevor Lewis THE SUNDAY TIMES )
'consolation, in its many forms, is THE EYRIE'S driving impulse - and it is offered toteh reader as well as to the characters.' (Kasia Boddy THE DAILY TELEGRAPH )
'In THE EYRIE, Davies writes beautifully, compassionately and has a fine perspective of geographical and social history.' (THE MORNING STAR )
Murrough O'Brien, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
'it is deeply joyful, and magically written, as full of sea swell as of rasping barnacles.'
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a novel about three women, but it's not chick lit. It's a novel about politics - past and present - but it's not a thriller. It's also a novel about Wales, the Welsh and the Welsh language, but its most memorable character is a Scot. And she's well into her nineties, which is one in the eye for those who think a book about anyone older than youthful middle age must be boring.
Boring it's not. But then, action-packed it's not either. To anyone familiar with the work of Stevie Davies, this is the latest in a series of character-based, beautifully-observed, and finely-crafted novels. To anyone unfamiliar with her work, it's as good a place as any to start.
As ever, Davies resists the temptation to write the sort of novel that shouts out TV or film deal (though it must have been tempting after the TV adaptation of Web of Belonging), or even to write the sort of book you'll find in huge heaps at the front of the big bookshop chains. In fact, if past experience is anything to go by, you'll be lucky to find it in those stores at all.
But if you like your reading to be thoughtful, insightful, and indeed delightful, you'll love this. The Eyrie is about three central characters living in a block of flats of that name, and Dora, the amazonian elderly lifelong Scottish communist and Spanish Civil War veteran, is the leader of them, at the centre of what action there is. I recently read CJ Sansom's Winter In Madrid and, if this is any recommendation, the two books taken together have made me determined to read more about the Spanish Civil War.
Highly recommended. And on second thoughts, maybe Dora would make a great TV or film character - but who would be big enough (or old enough) to play her?
Boring it's not. But then, action-packed it's not either. To anyone familiar with the work of Stevie Davies, this is the latest in a series of character-based, beautifully-observed, and finely-crafted novels. To anyone unfamiliar with her work, it's as good a place as any to start.
As ever, Davies resists the temptation to write the sort of novel that shouts out TV or film deal (though it must have been tempting after the TV adaptation of Web of Belonging), or even to write the sort of book you'll find in huge heaps at the front of the big bookshop chains. In fact, if past experience is anything to go by, you'll be lucky to find it in those stores at all.
But if you like your reading to be thoughtful, insightful, and indeed delightful, you'll love this. The Eyrie is about three central characters living in a block of flats of that name, and Dora, the amazonian elderly lifelong Scottish communist and Spanish Civil War veteran, is the leader of them, at the centre of what action there is. I recently read CJ Sansom's Winter In Madrid and, if this is any recommendation, the two books taken together have made me determined to read more about the Spanish Civil War.
Highly recommended. And on second thoughts, maybe Dora would make a great TV or film character - but who would be big enough (or old enough) to play her?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I loved the characterization and settings-Doris an elderly women receives a past history combined with a vitality in the present that makes getting old seem no so bad after all. Its a quiet story with powerful personal and collective elements for the three women who are each trying to live the best lives they can.
Format:Hardcover
Whilst I found the book well written on the whole, I lost the plot in some way and found that it ambled along slowly. I found the three lead women well developed and strong characters but the story didn't really grab me and I expected more.
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