In his brave and searing memoir, A Woman on the Edge of Time, Jeremy Gavron investigates the eerie similarities between the life and death of his mother and Sylvia Plath. Join to dissect the suffocation felt by intelligent, ambitious women in the 1960s.
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Margaret is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature area in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. Her particular teaching interest is contemporary and postmodern fiction.
Jeremy Gavron is the author of six books, including his new memoir A Woman on the Edge of Time, which tells the story of his mother’s suicide when he was four years old and his quest, four decades later, to discover who she was and why she killed herself. A former foreign correspondent in Africa and Asia, he now teaches fiction at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. He is married with two daughters (and an Australian godson).
