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Love’s joy and pain: families, friendships, and the ache of endings.

Honour & Other People's Children

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    2 July 2018

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Summary

Two classic Helen Garner novellas introduced by Michael Sala, award-winning author of The Last Thread and The Restorer.

Two novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.

In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo can’t understa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781925603729
ISBN-10:1925603725
Author:Helen Garner, Michael Sala
Publisher:Text Publishing
Imprint:The Text Publishing Company
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:2 July 2018
Weight:168g
Dimensions:21mm x 131mm x 208mm
Series:Text Classics
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Honour & Other People's Children by Helen Garner - ISBN: 9781925603729
131 × 208 mm
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A4
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Critics Review

‘Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life’s secular apocalypses…her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive.’ – James Wood * New Yorker *
‘She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all.’ * Weekend Australian *

About The Author

Helen Garner

Helen Garner (Author)

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Windham Campbell Prize for Non-Fiction, the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season, How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, which won the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and The Mushroom Tapes, with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.

Michael Sala (Introducer)

Michael Sala was born in the Netherlands in 1975 to a Greek father and a Dutch mother, and first came to Australia in the 1980s. He lives in Newcastle. His critically acclaimed debut, The Last Thread, won the 2013 NSW Premier’s Award for New Writing and was the regional winner (Pacific) of the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize.

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