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The Feel of Steel
The Feel of Steel | Helen Garner
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"Although I have been married three times, I have never been a bride. What - me, in a big white dress? In a veil? The closest I ever got to the fantasy was back in the eighties, when I used to admire the white gypsophila crowns that Susan Renouf wore to parties: I drew a curious satisfaction from their ethereal, circular, brow-pressing beauty. Twenty years later all that's left is the frisson I get from the coronet shape that salad leaves briefly take when I tip them out of the whizzer on to a tea towel." Cities, friends, lost loves, Antarctica, the joy of being a grandmother, weddings, fencing... Such is the array of subjects in Helen Garner's second non-fiction collection. Some pieces were published in The Age, some are previously unpublished, but woven together they present as an evocative memoir, and offer a wonderfully personal portrait of an always unconventional talent. In word-perfect and often hilarious prose, Helen Garner reminds us of the human condition, in all its various guises.
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Yay it‘s international so to make it easier I would pick a gift card. For all the choose your own adventure lovers sometimes Aldi sells them brand new. I bought one for my step daughter for her birthday and my partner Stew was disappointed I didn‘t get all of them. So I would get him one and for myself the tagged book. Go to @cobwebmoth for the details #chooseyourowngiveaway

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