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�Garner is a natural storyteller.� James Wood, New Yorker This handsome edition of Helen Garner�s collected short fiction celebrates the seventy-fifth birthday of one of Australia�s most loved authors. These stories�that delve into the complexities of love and longing, of the pain, darkness and joy of life�are all told with her characteristic sharpness of observation, honesty and humour. Each one a perfect piece, together they showcase Garner�s mastery of the form. 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 Windham�Campbell Literature Prize for non-fiction. Garner won the NSW Premier�s Literary Award for Fiction for Postcards from Surfers, and the Victorian and Queensland Premiers� Awards, as well as the Barbara Jefferis Award, for her novel The Spare Room. Everywhere I Look won the 2017 Indie Book Award for Non Fiction. �Garner�s stories share characteristics of the postcard: they flash before us carefully recorded images that remind us of harsher realities not pictured. And like postcards they are economically written, a bit of conversation is transcribed, a memory recalled, an event noted, scenes pass as if viewed from a train�momentarily, distinct and tantalising in their beauty.� New York Times �A perfect introduction for first-timers who have not yet experienced the pleasures of Garner�s writing.� Sydney Morning Herald