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The science of happiness

A presidential-term dream
by
January–February 2021, no. 428

Life After Truth by Ceridwen Dovey

Viking, $32.99 pb, 304 pp

The science of happiness

A presidential-term dream
by
January–February 2021, no. 428

Since the publication of her acclaimed first novel, Blood Kin (2007), Ceridwen Dovey has established herself as an intelligent author who typically probes what it means, and might mean in the future, to be human. Equally au fait with literary analysis, politics, and science, Dovey has since 2007 published several more books of fiction, two non-fiction books, and numerous essays, contributing regularly to The Monthly and The New Yorker. Now she has extended her range in fiction to a lighter mode, focusing on contemporary life and the pleasures of storytelling. Publishing in audio form has worked well in signalling Dovey’s new voice: Life After Truth was first published through the Australian and New Zealand Audible Originals program in November 2019, and her novel Once More with Feeling was released as an Audible Original in May 2020.

Josephine Taylor reviews 'Life After Truth' by Ceridwen Dovey

Life After Truth

by Ceridwen Dovey

Viking, $32.99 pb, 304 pp

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