Barbara Temperton
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"Southern Edge comprises three compelling and dramatic stories in verse. In 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Wife', a tale of adultery and tragedy, we enter a
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woman's inner world: sensuous, alienated, and acutely sensitive. 'The Gap' - full of suspense and foreboding - reveals the troubled relationship of an edgy, brash and passionate young woman, Julz, and her farmboy husband. 'Jetty Stories' tells of a frightening and reckless journey across country, a flight from a bizarre and horrifying death by drowning." "This book is an impressive performance by a poet with a gift for lyric poetry in full command of her powers of description, narrative and characterisation." --Book Jacket.
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