This House of Grief

Whichever form she’s inhabiting, Garner is great company: perceptive, unsparing of others yet also self-questioning. Her books contain details that radiate long after you finish reading them. – Max Liu * FINANCIAL TIMES *Garner’s writing is taut, compelling and unsentimental, but incredibly moving all the same. I would recommend anything by her, fiction or non fiction. – Harriet Tyce * DAILY MAIL *A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece, which examines just what we are capable of and how fiercely we hide it from ourselves. * Anne Enright *

Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children’s Bach.