Elizabeth Harrower: The woman in the watch tower

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded psychological fiction of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn't she continue Harrower gave elusive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her death in 2020 has a deeper search been possible.

When Harrower's four novels were brought back into print between 2012 and 2014, followed by a novel she had withdrawn from her publisher in 1971 and a collection of her short stories, a renaissance of admiration followed. In this engrossing biography, Susan Wyndham grapples with the questions that remained unanswered, the dynamics of Harrower's circles of famous friends, and her remarkable books and their timeless dissections of the human heart.

Author Bio

Susan Wyndham is a journalist and writer who interviewed and spoke with Elizabeth Harrower many times. She is the co-editor, with Brigitta Olubas, of Hazzard and Harrower: The letters, author of Life in His Hands: The true story of a neurosurgeon and a pianist, and editor of My Mother, My Father: On losing a parent.