Helen Garner

'Garner is a master anatomist of ordinary lives' THE TIMES 'A marvel of small domestic details' NEW YORK TIMES 'Garner writes with a fearsome, uplifting…

'Garner is a recording angel at life's secular apocalypses' NEW YORKER 'A great, strange novel by a very great Australian writer' SYDNEY REVIEW OF BOOKS…

'Visceral, incandescent stories' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of Australia's finest writers' OBSERVER  'Exacting, airtight . . . Garner's stylistic range dazzles' JONATHAN ESCOFFERY A woman sends…

I'm trying to write about footy and my grandson and me. About boys at dusk. A little life-hymn. A poem. A record of a season…

'Garner is a fascinating companion on the page' THE TIMES 'Her piercing intellect, fearlessness and compassion shine through in every word' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 'Helen…

In July 2023, in a quiet Australian country town, Erin Patterson - stay-at-home mother and true crime devotee - invited her husband's devoutly Christian family…

'The great Australian writer's masterpiece' THE TIMES 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'Marvellous, all eight hundred…

'A voice of great honesty and energy' ANNE ENRIGHT 'There are very few writers that I admire more than Helen Garner' DAVID NICHOLLS 'It is…

Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025 One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century 'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece'…

'A jewel of a novel about a perfect family falling apart' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A slim, deeply humane work that tingles with life' THE TIMES 'One…

'Seductive as hell. Brilliant, unusual, breathtaking' LAUREN GROFF 'Languid, beautiful' ANOTHER MAGAZINE 'Its pages radiate sex and heat, chlorine and rock'n'roll' MADELAINE LUCAS In 1970s…