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9781743058695 (paperback)
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Lefevre, Carol, 1951-
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Temperance / Carol Lefevre.
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Mile End, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2023.
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326 pages ; 21 cm
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Their mother takes a wrong turn as she drives out of the southern New South Wales country town of Hay. As she spins the wheel there is no way of knowing that this is a bend in their lives, a fatal kink. Theo monitors the flutter of his mother's hands crossing and re-crossing the steering wheel before they are all thrown sideways - it is the distracting move of a magician, or of a bullfighter twirling the red cape. December, 1963: widowed café owner Stella Madigan, with her two young children Fran and Theo, and the free-spirited artist Mardi Rose, embark on a road trip to Byron Bay. But a night spent in the tiny outback town of Temperance will alter all their lives, and ignite a chain of events the children will struggle to both conceal and resolve, long into adulthood. Temperance explores the discrepancies between what children see and what adults allow them to believe. Its mystery unravels against a background of early 1960s Australia, where religious wars are fought in suburban living rooms, and feminism has made so little headway that a relationship between two women can be seen as perverse, even dangerous.
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Automobile travel -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Australian fiction
New South Wales -- Fiction
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Australian fiction
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Automobile travel -- Fiction
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Families -- Fiction
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Life change events -- Fiction
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New South Wales -- Fiction
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Australian literature
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Children's stories, Australian
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Science fiction, Australian
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Short stories, Australian
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Lefevre, Carol, 1951-
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