Book description
Written in spare yet sensuous prose, Nights in the Asylum is the story
of three people seeking shelter; it is also a story of home, of
belonging, of leaving one home and trying to make another, where-ever
and how-ever you can.
Stricken with grief and guilt following the death of her daughter, Miri
flees the city for the quiet calm of Havana Gardens, a once fine but now
dilapidated mansion built for her grandmother. On the road she rescues
Aziz, an Afghan refugee on the run from detention; then, in the attic of
the old house, Miri discovers Suzette Moran and her baby daughter
hiding, and grants them refuge.
Slowly, in the hot confined spaces of the house, the three runaways
unravel their stories, but when Suzette’s policeman husband comes
looking for her, it sparks a chain of events that will disrupt their
already fragile peace. Carol Lefevre spent her early life in towns in
outback Australia. She has published non-fiction and short stories, and
now combines freelance writing and photography with doctoral studies.
She divides her time between the Isle of Man and Australia.
