But what did teenage girls in country towns want with Latin and French and art? What use would it be to them? The literary longings of a studious girl born into a working class family, hot afternoons in a dust-plain Wilcannia schoolhouse; the temptation to stay, and the perils of breaking free The Happiness Glass reflects complex griefs in the life of Lily Brennan. Lilys story allows the author to navigate some of the difficulties of memoir, and out of its bittersweet blend of real, remembered, and imagined life, the portrait of a writer gradually emerges. In fiction that forms around a core of memory, life writing that acknowledges the elusiveness of truth, Carol Lefevre has written a remarkable, risk-taking book that explores questions of homesickness, infertility, adoption, and family estrangement, in Lily Brennans life, and in her own.
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 Peoples 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
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