SOURCE: "Toronto Blessings," in New Statesman & Society, Vol. 8, No. 347, April 7, 1995, p. 56.
[In the following mixed review of The Cunning Man, Kaveney argues that while Davies may be reactionary in his ideological orientation, he has an "exemplary sense" of how "ordinary people" experience and deal with pity and terror.]
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