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How to End a Story: Diaries: 1995–1998 by [Helen Garner]

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Helen Garner

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Helen Garner’s third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her.

Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rails against the confines. At the same time she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship – and the truth of her own self.

This is a harrowing story, a portrait of the messy, painful, dark side of love lost, of betrayal and sadness and the sheer force of a woman’s anger. But it is also a story of resilience and strength, strewn with sharp insight, moments of joy and hope, the immutable ties of motherhood and the regenerative power of a room of one’s own.

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino, The Spare Room, The First Stone, This House of Grief, Everywhere I Look, Yellow Notebook and One Day I’ll Remember This.

‘The ordinary in these diaries—the daily, the diurnal, the stumbled-upon, the breathing in and out—is turned into something else through the writer’s extraordinary craft.’ Australian Book Review

‘Helen Garner is one of the lords of language in our midst and something more. She has a poet’s ear, a painter’s eye and she understands profoundly and without self-pity the mystery of the tears in things.’ Australian

‘The spirituality of these diaries is worth a library of high-minded theology…Their acuity is ultimately healing. You will leave with the impression that you have not so much been looking at Garner’s life as at life itself.’ Sydney Morning Herald/Age

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Helen Garner: Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong. Her first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 National Book Council Award, and was adapted for film in 1981.
Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays, and feature journalism. Her screenplay The Last Days of Chez Nous was filmed in 1990. Garner has won many prizes, among them a Walkley Award for her 1993 article about the murder of two-year-old Daniel Valerio.
In 1995 she published The First Stone, a controversial account of a Melbourne University sexual harassment case. Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004) was a non-fiction study of two murder trials in Canberra.
In 2006 Helen Garner received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature.
Her most recent novel, The Spare Room (2008), has been translated into many languages.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 2, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Best Sellers Rank: #296,504 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #136 in Letters & Correspondence (Kindle Store)
- #527 in Biographies & Memoirs of Authors
- #766 in Literary Diaries & Journals

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Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong, and was educated there and at Melbourne University. She taught in Victorian secondary schools until 1972, when she was dismissed for answering her students’ questions about sex, and had to start writing journalism for a living.

Her first novel, Monkey Grip, came out in 1977, won the 1978 National Book Council Award, and was adapted for film in 1981. Since then she has published novels, short stories, essays, and feature journalism. Her screenplay The Last Days of Chez Nous was filmed in 1990. Garner has won many prizes, among them a Walkley Award for her 1993 article about the murder of two-year-old Daniel Valerio. In 1995 she published The First Stone, a controversial account of a Melbourne University sexual harassment case. Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2004) was a non-fiction study of two murder trials in Canberra.

In 2006 Helen Garner received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature. Her most recent novel, The Spare Room (2008), won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Fiction and the Barbara Jefferis Award, and has been translated into many languages.

Helen Garner lives in Melbourne.

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Timothy J Hurst

A cracking good read.

Reviewed in Australia on November 10, 2021

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I really liked this book which I’ve just this minute finished. The story of the end of Ms Garner’s marriage was at times grimly fascinating, hilarious, sad, optimistic, other words I can’t think of now. I would love to meet her some time and tell her how much I admire her work.

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Cappy

Compelling depiction of a destructive partner and the demise of a relationship

Reviewed in Australia on November 19, 2021

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I found this book profoundly moving - it should become compulsory reading for teenagers, as it is relevant to our developing knowledge of less-obvious forms of domestic violence. The confusing combination of lies, sarcasm, put-downs and betrayal amidst periods of pleasant interactions is exactly the recipe for a slow, tortuous and destructive marriage. I am immensely proud of Helen Garner in publishing this diary and for her efforts in self-development, and wish her love and continued success.

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Amazon Customer HMS

Easy read

Reviewed in Australia on March 11, 2022

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Easy read with a few gems but quite obviously in it's outcome. The gems mainly lie in the aphifanies that the author has in her journey back to herself.

richard

helen and her books

Reviewed in Australia on March 26, 2022

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When you read Helen Garner you forget what you are not reading.
Her success is evidence to brilliance.
Read it and you will understand

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