More from Helen Garner

  1. 'Didn't this used to be our dining-room table back at Sutherland Street, Frank?' said Kathleen.
  2. Revolution begins in the kitchen.
  3. 'In my profession I have learned that women can bear more pain than men.'
  4. 'What's funny?' said Pin, shifting uncomfortably in the hospital bed.
  5. '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'…
  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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