More from Helen Garner

  1. 'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.
  2. 'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen.
  3. 'He claims,' said Jenny tactfully, 'That he flew through a radioactive cloud thirty years ago and that it didn't do him any harm - thus it'…
  4. Revolution begins in the kitchen.
  5. 'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
  6. 'Course I care. I always care. But there's no point in making a song and dance about it, like that night he stayed here. Know something? Th…
  7. Her handwriting in these pencilled jottings, made forty-five years ago, is exactly as it is today: this makes me suspect, when I am not wit…
  8. 'That,' I said, 'would be a blessing. There are so many things I'd like to forget I hardly know what would be left standing, if I ever got …

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