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Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine
and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend
from Dexter's university days, turns up, she brings an enticing
world to their doorstep and Athena finds herself straining at the
confines of her life.? This intimate and engaging short novel was
first published in 1984. The Children's Bach is 'a jewel', in Ben
Lerner's description, 'beautiful, lapidary, rare'.
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the
Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction
of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a
magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury
on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday
morning, across the great volcanic plain. On the evening of 4
September 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated
husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy,
when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged
ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic
accident? The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She
followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict. In
this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man
and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with
its actors and audience - all gathered to witness to the truth -
players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest
for justice. This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and
unputdownable book by one of Australia's most admired writers.
Helen Garner's first novel divided the critics on its publication
in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece - the
novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living
never before presented in Australian literature: communal
households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs, and sex.
When Nora falls in love with Javo, she is caught in the web of his
addiction; and as he moves between loving her and leaving, between
his need for her and promises broken, Nora's life becomes an
intense dance of loving and trying to let go.
When Helen offers her spare room to her old friend Nicola, she has
little idea of what lies ahead. Nicola has cancer and, sceptical of
the medical establishment, is in the city for a course of
alternative treatment. She is determined to deal with her illness
in her own way, regardless of the advice that Helen can offer. In
the weeks that follow, Nicola's fight against cancer will turn not
only her own life upside down but the lives of everyone around her.
Told with humour and honesty, this unforgettable novel charts a
friendship as it is tested in the face of death.
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The Children's Bach - A Novel
Helen Garner; Introduction by Rumaan Alam
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In her first novel in fifteen years, Helen Garner writes about the
joys and limits of female friendship under the transforming
pressure of illness. "The clear-eyed grace of her prose" in this
darkly funny and unsparing novel has been hailed by Peter Carey as
"the work of a great writer." Garlanded with awards, dazzling
reviewers around the globe, "The Spare Room" is destined to be a
modern literary classic.
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