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Davies, Katharine

Katharine Davies’s first novel, A Good Voyage (published this year in paperback as The Madness of Love), is inspired by Twelfth Night and is set partly in Sri Lanka. She now teaches Creative Writing, although she once spent a slightly foxed five months working in the offices of a certain quarterly.

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Cooking for Love

Katharine Davies on Romesh Gunesekera, Reef

Each time I read Reef – the story of a boy, Triton, growing up as a servant and cook in Sri Lanka in the late 1960s – I find something new. I think the way that The Tempest flits in and out of the novel is one of the things that keeps me rereading it. Another is the play of light and shadow in Romesh Gunesekera’s prose. I lived in Colombo from 1992 to 1994, teaching English, and my first home was on Havelock Road where, only the year before, a bomb had exploded, throwing severed heads and body parts into the air. This, by Sri Lankan standards, was nothing. Like many others, I was struck by the incongruity of such horror in a country so deceptively gentle, one that looked so much like the Garden of Eden. In Reef Gunesekera seduces you with a charming depiction of a lost era, but underlying it all is the knowledge of the killing that came later.

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