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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 The Happiness Glass
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'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.

'Lily’s 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 Brennan's life, and in her own.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Geelong North, Geelong North area, Geelong area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,: Spinifex Press , 2018 .
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      Extent: 120p.p.
      ISBN: 9781925581638, 9781925581645, 9781925581669, 9781925581652
    • Geelong North, Geelong North area, Geelong area, Geelong - Terang - Lake Bolac area, Victoria,: Spinifex Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 120p.
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      • Published 1 April 2019

      ISBN: 9781925581638

Works about this Work

Milestones in Auto/Biography Moya Costello , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

— Review of The Happiness Glass Carol Lefevre , 2018 single work novel ; The Man on the Mantelpiece : A Memoir Marion Campbell , 2018 single work biography
Layers Susan Varga , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 410 2019; (p. 40)

'Carol Lefevre is the author of two novels and a non-fiction book on Adelaide, all well received and awarded. Yet she is not as well known in her own country as she should be, having spent decades in England. I hope The Happiness Glass will remedy that.'  (Introduction)

Milestones in Auto/Biography Moya Costello , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , April vol. 23 no. 1 2019;

— Review of The Happiness Glass Carol Lefevre , 2018 single work novel ; The Man on the Mantelpiece : A Memoir Marion Campbell , 2018 single work biography
Layers Susan Varga , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 410 2019; (p. 40)

'Carol Lefevre is the author of two novels and a non-fiction book on Adelaide, all well received and awarded. Yet she is not as well known in her own country as she should be, having spent decades in England. I hope The Happiness Glass will remedy that.'  (Introduction)

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