Honour and Other People's Children - by Helen Garner (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Two novellas, delving into our connections with those we love, and the pain of breaking those connections. Introduced by Michael Sala.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, and share the parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo can't understand why they all can't live together. In Other People's Children, Ruth and Scotty live in a big share house that's breaking up. Scotty is trying to hold on, remembering the early days of stories, laughter and singing--and when the kids were everyone's kids. But now the bitterness has crept in and their friendship is broken. Ruth is ready to move on--and she'll take her kids with her.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'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, The 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.'--The Weekend Australian<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Helen Garner is one of Australia's finest authors. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. Her novels include Monkey Grip, The Children's Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room.
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