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The Taxi Queue
  • Published: 15 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099506966
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99

The Taxi Queue

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1 Sept 2010
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15 Aug 2008
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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 his wife, but also through the fragile existence of Abe's younger sister, Kirsty, who is herself unsure of the best way to settle down...
  • Published: 15 August 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099506966
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Janet Davey

Janet Davey was born in 1953. She is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, First Aid, The Taxi Queue and By Battersea Bridge.

JD

Also by Janet Davey

Another Mother's Son
By Battersea Bridge
First Aid
English Correspondence
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Praise for The Taxi Queue

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

With the lightest of touches this beguiling novelist expounds the dilemmas of contemporary living

Times Literary Supplement

A novel that feels more like real life than any other book you will read this year

Independent