Bec Kavanagh reviews Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery

Ordinary Matter

by Laura Elvery

UQP

Reviewed by BEC KAVANAGH

Laura Elvery’s second collection of short stories, Ordinary Matter, takes its inspiration from the mere twenty times women have won the Nobel Prize for science. And yet it isn’t science that connects the pieces in this collection, but the ‘softer’ stuff: the women in these stories are united by themes of motherhood, love, art – experiences which are often problematised, or portrayed as obstacles to a more ‘successful’ career-driven life.

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