About the book
Synopsis
After the sudden death of her mother, Mara Ellison returns to her childhood home and discovers the paintings she abandoned at nineteen. Taking up a brush again exposes questions that her carefully ordered life has kept contained. Nathan's care has always been precise, reliable and constant, but as Mara claims space beyond the roles of wife, mother and community organiser, the boundary between devotion and control becomes harder to ignore. Their children, Lena and Samuel, must interpret a family change that offers them no simple villain. Told through the intimate language of rooms, keys, lists, unfinished canvases and ordinary acts of care, The Deferred Identity asks whether a shared life can endure when one person refuses to postpone herself any longer.
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