Category Archives: Joanna Kavenna
“I Wanted to Write a Quartet”: Joanna Kavenna Gives a Nod to Lawrence Durrell (1 August 2011).
In The Birth of Love (Faber 2010), Joanna Kavenna sought to fashion a novel in which reality was “entirely inflected by the altered concerns of a woman who is in labour.” That ideal demanded the discovery of a storytelling form … Continue reading











