Honour & Other People's Children: Text Classics

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Two novellas about the deep connections we forge with the people we love, and the pain of breaking those connections.

In Honour, Kathleen and Frank are amicably separated, in contact through shared parenting of their young daughter, Flo. But when Frank finds a new partner and wants a divorce, Kathleen is hurt. And Flo cant understand why they all cant live together.

In Other Peoples Children, Ruth and Scotty live in a big share house thats breaking up. Scotty is trying to hold on, remembering the early days of telling life stories and laughter and singingand when the kids were everyones kids. But now the bitterness has crept in and their friendship is broken. Ruth is ready to move onand shell take her kids with her.

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Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at lifes secular apocalypsesher unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive. -- James Wood * New Yorker *
She drills into experience and comes up with such clean, precise distillations of life, once you read them they enter into you. Successive generations of writers have felt the keen influence of her work and for this reason Garner has become part of us all. * Weekend Australian *

Author Bio

Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. In 2006 she received the inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, and in 2016 she won the prestigious WindhamCampbell Prize for non-fiction and the Western Australian Premiers Book Award. In 2019 she was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. Her novels include The Childrens Bach, Cosmo Cosmolino and The Spare Room. She lives in Melbourne.