Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 (Diaries) by Helen Garner

Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 (Diaries) by Helen GarnerFinally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia's greatest living writers. Yellow Notebook, Diaries Volume I, in this new paperback edition, spans about a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her

to ask questions and to laugh

The one who turns everything into double entendres ('I'll weed your garden')

New Zealand Poet Laureate'There's a wry humour to the book

hatches a bold plan to escape

for example

Join Grace and her family on their adventurous and sometimes funny expedition

a school that is changing the lives of some of the poorest children in Tanzania

but reflect on them so little

It's a question that forces us to reckon with what we love and fear most in ourselves

To find her friend

told in beautifully lush prose' Lyndall Clipstone

waiting to help you