She and six classmates have announced they'll be joining the nuns when they leave school at the end of the year. The apparent finality of this collective repudiation of the world, in a weird sort of way, is cool.
First-born, eldest daughter, Little Mother to her siblings, Irish-Australian, brainy schoolgirl at the time the Beaumont children vanish … will the real Carmel please stand up? When it comes time to venture into love and other alternatives, mutinous forces undermine her confidence, and malevolence turns to violence. Now she's starring in her own horror-home-movie.
Room Temperature, a mosaic of subtle allusion and canny observation, is a novel about memory, time, and the struggle to break away from family pathology.
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Cath Kenneally is an arts journalist and broadcaster. She has written five books of poetry, including Around Here, which won the John Bray National Poetry Award, and one other novel, Room Temperature, also published by Wakefield Press. She lives in Adelaide and has three children.
ISBN 9781862545069
CATEGORY Fiction
PAGE COUNT 176
DIMENSIONS 210 x 135 mm