Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario, in 1913. A novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, he received numerous awards for his work. It is as a writer of fiction that Robertson Davies achieved international recognition, with such books as The Salterton Trilogy (Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and A Mixture of Frailties); The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore and World of Wonders); The Cornish Trilogy (The Rebel Angels, What's Bred in the Bone, shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize, and The Lyre of Orpheus); Murther & Walking Spirits, and The Cunning Man. Robertson Davies died in 1995.
Irresistible, unflaggingly vital. A wholehearted and sharp-minded
celebration of the Great Theatre of Life
*Sunday Times*
A novel brimming with themes of music, poetry, beauty, philosophy,
death and the deep recesses of the mind
*Observer*
An amazing coup. Davies has written a brilliant, never less than
engaging work of fiction which is also a philosophical meditation
on the business of living. I have not read anything so good in a
very long time
*Financial Times*
A wise, humane and consistently entertaining novel
*New York Times Book Review*
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