Confessions with KeithAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 8 December 2022
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Winner of the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book PrizeAn outrageously comic novel documents a middle-aged writer and mother's grappling with mid-life crisisâ?"her husband's and her own. Preoccupied with her fledgling literary career, intent on the all-consuming consolations of philosophy, and scrambling to meet the demands of her four children, the acutely myopic and chronically inattentive Vita Glass doesnâ?Tt notice that herA house and her marriage are competing to see which can fall apart fastest. SheA can barely find time for her writing career, and just when her newfound success in vegetable erotica is beginning to take off.A Our heroineâ?Ts only tried and trusted escape is the blissful detachment of Keith's hairdressing salon, but when her husband leaves the country, unannounced, she decides to do likewiseâ?"in the opposite direction, and with their children. Drawn from the pages of Vitaâ?Ts journal, this outrageously comic novel documents Vita's passage through a mid-life crisis and explores all the ways we deceive each other and ourselves.
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