LITERARY BIOGRAPHY

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 great writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rails against the confines while 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.

Subject:

• Garner, Helen, 1942- — Diaries
• Marriage
• Diaries
• Women novelists, Australian — Biography
• Spouses — Biography
• Man-woman relationships — Australia
• Authors, Australian — 20th century — Biography
• Autobiography: writers
• Diaries, letters and journals
• Australian

Genre/Form: Autobiographies

First Edition.

• 247 pages ; 24 pages #241124