How to End a Story: Diaries Volume 3, 1995-1998 by Helen Garner

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition. Ex library copy with no stickers nor stamps. Small piece of sticky tape on front endpage. RFID patch on inside back cover.

Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold onto a marriage that is disintegrating around her.

Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rallies against the confines. At the same time she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship - and the truth of her own self.

This is a harrowing story, a portrait of the messy, painful, dark side of love love, of betrayal and sadness and the sheer force of a woman's anger. But it is also a story of resilience and strength, strewn with sharp insight, moments of joy and hope, the immutable ties of motherhood and the regenerative power of a room of one's own.