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Helen Garner

Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.

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Title:

How to End a Story: Diaries 1995–1998 (MP3)

Written by:

Helen Garner 

Read by:

Helen Garner 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

8 hours  

MP3 size:

346 MB 

Published:

April 01 2022 

Available Date:

April 01 2022 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038600851 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Autobiography; Memoirs 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 29.95

AUD$ 29.95

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Award winning author
Australian author

Shortlisted National Biography Award 2023
Winner ASA Medal 2023

Helen Garner’s third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her.

Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. At the same time she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship – and the truth of her own self. This is a harrowing story, a portrait of the messy, painful, dark side of love lost, of betrayal and sadness and the sheer force of a woman’s anger. But it is also a story of resilience and strength, strewn with sharp insight, moments of joy and hope, the immutable ties of motherhood and the regenerative power of a room of one’s own.

'The spirituality of these diaries is worth a library of high-minded theology …'
Sydney Morning Herald

'Helen Garner is one of the lords of language in our midst and something more.'
The Australian

'The ordinary in these diaries – the daily, the diurnal, the stumbled-upon, the breathing in and out – is turned into something else through the writer’s extraordinary craft.'
Australian Book Review

‘A devastating yet enlightening look in to the private thoughts and feelings of an incredible woman. It is a privilege to read.’
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