Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1, 1978-1987 by Helen Garner

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Sunning to right and tail foredges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Helen Garner has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bounds, in a laundry cupboard.

Finally, Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume 1 spans a decade beginning in the late 1970s just after the publication of her first novel, Monkey Grip.

With her frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of everyday happenings provide an intimate insight into the life of one of Australia's greatest writers.

'This diary is a stream of fragments, a record of the world as it struck me on my way through: people I've known, things that happened to me or that I did or saw or dreamt or thought; also weather and shoes and landscape and music, and what I read and how I learnt to write.'