Safety : a novel and thesis

University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. This thesis contains 3rd party copyright material. The hardcopy may be available for consultation at the UTS Library.NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. This thesis contains 3rd party copyright material. ----- My thesis is a novel entitled “Safety”, concerning the life of my protagonist, Elizabeth. “Safety” is set in contemporary Sydney and Spain. It is about sex: how one person finds her way in a long relationship, after having had difficulties with sex and intimacy; difficulties that include being raped as a teenager. It is also about violence, and how we process it and live with it; about children, and how a relationship survives them; and about mortality. None of us is safe, or can hope to be: “Safety” is about living with this knowledge. Appended to this novel is an exegesis entitled “Solving Problems in Fiction”, in which I discuss issues relating to the writing of my novel, and in particular examine the methods by which contemporary writers identify and rectify problems in their fiction