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On Beverley Farmer by Josephine Rowe psychological-fiction ‘Most people have an ideaAcross Farmer's works there has always been an attraction to those beings who occupy two worlds Once one has lived elsewhere, lived differently, it doesn't matter whether she stays to forge a new life or turns back towards the old, or moves on once again; there will always be the shadow, the after image, of the life not lived.' Beverley Farmer's writing reflects on restlessness, desire and homecoming. In this brilliantly acute essay, fellow novelist