num_pages: 293
description: Charts the complications of family relationships with deft insight dry wit and extraordinary tenderness. Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her self-confident brothers and as an adult her choices are disapproved of -- the small art gallery she works for the friends she makes the men she sees. Mossy -- lumbered with a childhood nickname that stuck -- is never the 'fixed point'; not for her most recent lover Nick Halsey or for the mother whose approval she craves. Instead she lives on the edges of things. On a whim she takes up an offer to scout for holiday properties in Bulgaria escaping the impending second wedding of her perfect brother -- and a horrifying episode in her past. Poignant and absurd sharp and wry Janet Davey's luminous prose charts the complications of family relationships with insight and extraordinary tenderness. As Anita navigates difficult waters we begin to understand her past and little by little see her emerge anew.
language: English
title: By Battersea Bridge
publisher: Chatto & Windus