A Universe of One's Own

By Antonia Hayes

Antonia Hayes' adventures in language began when, as a young child, she was a word sponge, soaking up speech and phrases and the sometimes haunted spaces in between. She became a natural bookworm, turning to the Baby-Sitters Club series to start a lifetime of finding friends and comfort in the pages of a book. When her debut novel, Relativity , was published, she again turned to literature for guidance and consolation, this time in the form of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own . Woolf wished for financial independence and a room of one's own in which to write, but Hayes, writing almost 90 years later, argues here that perhaps women writers need a whole universe of their own. Buoyed by hope and a lifetime of language, Hayes tells us how we can disturb the universe before A Room of One's Own turns 100.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143782495
• ISBN13: 9780143782490
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Penguin Australia
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 6.9"