Carol Lefevre is an Adelaide-based writer whose book, The Happiness Glass, explores the imaginative terrain between essays and short fiction. 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. Her writing is sharp, moving, insightful and beautifully poetic. "Burning With Madame Bovary" records the tentative emergence of a writer, while the remaining essays explore the complex griefs of homesickness, inter-country adoption, and family estrangement. 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

About the Author
Carol Lefevre holds both a M.A. and a Ph.D in Creative Writing from the University ofAdelaide, where she is a Visiting Research Fellow. Her two previous novels are If You Were Mine(2008) and Nights in the Asylum (2007), which won the Kibble Award, the Peoples ChoiceAward at the South Australian Writers Festival and was shortlisted for the CommonwealthWriters Prize. Her non-fiction book Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery (2016) wasshortlisted for the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. In 2016, Carol won theBarbara Hanrahan Fellowship at the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. She wasWriter-in-Residence at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice in 2016/17.

Reviews
A mellifluous but uncompromising and utterly convincing window onto the journeys thatwomen sometimes have to take. This is a superb collection. I read with relish and grief.Brian Castro



Book Information
ISBN 9781925581638
Author Carol Lefevre
Format Paperback
Page Count 124
Imprint Spinifex Press
Publisher Spinifex Press