Devotion

Who is Veronica? What is she so afraid of? Following the birth of her second child the successful and beautiful Veronica inexplicably stops speaking and refuses to see her baby. With her psychiatrist suggesting writing as therapy she begins to pour her ghosts and memories into a laptop believing that only she is reading them...

In this compelling novel from a fresh voice of Australian fiction, Ffion Murphy bravely tackles some of the silent issues faced by many women and families.

Devotion explores the complex and chilling effects on families of children with serious disabilities and of postnatal depression, as well as the potency of female relationships - between mothers and daughters, sisters and friends.

Ffion Murphy has researched the areas of memory, trauma, psychoanalysis, writing therapy and postnatal depression.

About the Author:
Ffion Murphy was born in Kenya, grew up in Perth and lived in Sydney, London, and then Brisbane before returning to Western Australia in 2001. She worked for several years in film and television and now teaches writing and editing at Edith Cowan University. Her publications include 'The Gate of Dreams', 'Writing Australia' and 'Story/telling' and she was the inaugural editor of the API Review of Books, Devotion is her first novel. She currently lives by the river in Perth with her partner, children and two dogs.

Fremantle Press
Author: Ffion Murphy
ISBN: 1921064781
RRP: $27.95

Review:
We are trained as children to be mothers, role play and nurtured, but still when the time comes, it's not as rose coloured or easy as we might of thought. There highs and lows that make it interesting, but then there are the serious issues. Ffion Murphy takes us down the road less travelled and explores a new side of being a woman, mother, daughter, sister & friend.