I'm sure I'll read Helen Garner again, but I'm not convinced Everywhere I Look was the best place to start. She spent more than 7 years covering the trial and re-trial of Robert Farquharson, the man accused of deliberately drowning his three young sons by driving his car into a dam to produce This House of Grief. I can understand Helen's fascination with what makes ordinary people 'snap' and commit terrible crimes and her dogged determination to find out is to be admired. Her writing on the topics of ageing and being an 'invisible woman' were most interesting, as were her thoughts on several true crimes that occurred in Melbourne. Helen certainly knows how to wield a pen and her everyday observations were enjoyable to read. This was my first introduction to Garner's writing and I now understand the reverence in which she's held. Woohoo!Įverywhere I Look by Helen Garner is a collection of essays and diary extracts about a whole host of unrelated topics, written - and published elsewhere - over the last two decades or so. The library has been successfully running for 12 months now and the reason the discovery was so exciting is because it was the first book to be donated that I personally wanted to read. I discovered this little gem of a book on one of the shelves in the free little library I started in my apartment building.
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