Kith and Kin

'Stevie Davies's KITH & KIN is a moving scalpel-sharp story of close family relationships...The writing is urgent and surprising the tale at its most hilarious when it is bitter and bizarre...I couldn't put this book down until I had finished it'

Patricia Duncker

Mara and Frankie are cousins and best friends growing up in the stifling atmosphere of Swansea in the 1950s amid a bickering yet close-knit extended family. But their passionate friendship comes under threat as they reach adolescence in the heady atmosphere of the Sixties - a decade in which the conventions of family and kinship are overturned. Years later as Mara begins to confront the questions surrounding Frankie's death she is drawn back into their secret past and the struggles of a generation betrayed by its own values.