Description The Happiness Glass explores the imaginative terrain between essays and short fiction.
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She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, and a member of the J.
In February 2016 Carol was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.
Her non-fiction title Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery was published in 2016 by Wakefield Press.
If You Were Mine was published by Vintage in 2008.
Kibble Award for Women Writers and the People\'s Choice Award.
Nights in the Asylum, Picador (UK) and Vintage (Australia) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers\' Prize, won the 2008 Nita B.
About the Author Carol Lefevre holds both an MA and Ph D in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide.
The fictional character Lily Brennan appears at points from childhood to old age, allowing the writer to navigate some of the problems of autobiographical writing, while adding layers of meaning to the unfolding life.
This essay records the tentative emergence of a writer, while the remaining essays explore the complex griefs of homesickness, inter-country adoption, and family estrangement.
Burning With Madame Bovary begins with a precocious reader who wants to study French and Latin, but instead she is pushed to the typing pool and learning shorthand.
Her writing is sharp, moving, insightful and beautifully poetic.
The narrative takes us from remote NSW to New Zealand and England through a series of deeply affecting experiences of poverty, domestic violence, loneliness, infertility, adoption, and grief.
Description The Happiness Glass explores the imaginative terrain between essays and short fiction
