The Kill Your Darlings Podcast

Heartbreak, Obsession, Rejection: Beverly Farmer’s lesbian cult classic Alone


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Bestselling novelist and literary critic Madeleine Gray joins Rebecca to discuss Beverley Farmer’s Alone, a lyrical, tender, sad exploration of a young woman’s heartbreak, hopelessness and obsession provoked by the ending of a passionate relationship and rejection by her female lover due to the social stigma of 1950s Melbourne.

 

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