Time is the Longest Distance by Janet Clare

Time is the Longest Distance by Janet Clare

Set in the harsh desert of the Australian outback, Time Is the Longest Distance is a moral story of immorality in a place where night comes on like a door slamming shut.

Lilly, a 45-year-old New Yorker, is persuaded by her newly-found father, Cameron, to take on the Canning Stock Route, the most difficult outback track in the country. Crossing the dead heart of the Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, she is joined by her half-brother, Grant, and his twenty-something daughter, Jen.

Like a moon walker far from her life, Lilly becomes entangled in an unlikely love affair and witness to an unsavory death. The hard days and long nights provide time and space for Lilly to recall the years with her ex-husband, Stephen, artist and all-around drunk--the greatest love and disappointment in her life--forcing her to examine her own imperfections as she learns, first-hand, about the power and destruction of secrets, sexual taboos, and the thrill of transgression.

Janet Clare is the Director of the Andrew Marvell Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Professor of Renaissance Literature at the University of Hull. Art Created Tongue-Tied by Authority: Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatrical Censorship (1990), Drama of the English Republic, 1649-1660 (2002), and Renaissance Vengeance Tragedies (2007) are among her works. She has co-edited the Journal of Early Modern Studies 2 on Shakespeare and Early Modern Popular Culture, and she has reviewed Shakespeare productions in Ireland for Shakespeare Survey.