Carol Lefevre holds both a M.A. and a Ph.D in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, 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 People’s Choice Award at the South Australian Writers Festival and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Her non-fiction book Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery (2016) was shortlisted for the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. In 2016, Carol won the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship at the South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. She was Writer-in-Residence at the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice in 2016/17.

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