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Introducing Read This: We Went to Helen Garner's House

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The Importance of Revisiting Your Diaries and What They've Showed You About Marriage

Helen Garner's most recent books are three volumes of her diaries. They range from 1978 to 1998 and are nothing short of astonishing. The third volume, How To End a Story, is as detailed and real an account of the breakdown of a marriage as you could read. Coming up after the break, Helen tells us about the intellectual and emotional task of revisiting her old diaries and what that's shown her about marriage.

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