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Carol Lefevre's Temperance explores absence and the effects of trauma

  • Written by: Susan Sheridan, Emeritus Professor, Flinders University
Carol Lefevre's Temperance explores absence and the effects of traumaBrighton Jetty, Adelaide.Adina Levy/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Contrary to the connotations of its title, Temperance is a novel of extremes. The narrative is built around two disappearances, which traumatically affect the lives of a woman and her children.


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