Web of Belonging

Stevie Davies is a writer who has been long-listed for both the Orange and Booker Prizes. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives and works in Wales.

‘The Web of Belonging... is a novel which istender, perceptive, almost painful in its honestyand hilariously funny. Its characters are somarvellously drawn that you want more, more,more. I started to re-read this book the momentI’d finished it in case I’d missed a precious line.’– Marcelle D’Argy Smith, The IndependentJess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury withher husband Jacob for many years. He is solid,dependable, beautiful to her. She is contentedto be his wife, to look after his elderly mother,aunt and cousin, to be a pillar of their family andcommunity. Then, suddenly, everything changes.Now Jess must question the entire basis onwhich she has lived so many years of her life.Must discover whether the identity she hascreated has really been so valuable to herselfand to those around her, and whether there is adifferent – angry, passionate, fulfillable – Jesswaiting to get out.