Do families aid creativity or do they stifle it? Does art require freedom and solitude, the luxuries of long, introspective walks on beaches and bottles of red for one, or can art arise from the chaos and banality of domestic life with a spouse and children?
Alice Haskins, the female lead of Melbourne playwright Joanna Murray-Smith’s third novel, is a forty-year-old writer who occupies a gorgeo ... (read more)