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Jan 14, 2025 | 
insidestory.org.au | Helen Garner |Susan Lever
“When I die, will you wear a black armband?” Helen Garner asks her footballer grandson. “Yes,” he replies, unselfconsciously declaring both his love and his acceptance that she will die. They are watching a first-grade AFL game on TV and a player is wearing two black armbands. Garner surmises that two of his grandparents have died.
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
newyorkfolk.com | James White |Helen Garner
The Australian author Helen Garner’s first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, and her third, Children’s Bach, published in 1984—both recently reissued in the United States—are considered classics in Australia, and they really are fantastic books. They’re also likely to freak you out.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
booksellercrow.co.uk | Helen Garner |Stéphane Carlier |Patrick Bringley |Gabriel García Márquez
When: 2nd May 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm 2024-05-02T19:30:00+01:00 2024-05-02T21:15:00+01:00 Where: The Bookseller Crow50 Westow StLondon SE19 3AFUK Contact: Keiran Goddard will be in conversation with Bookseller Crow on Thursday 2nd May, 7.30pm.
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
booksellercrow.co.uk | Helen Garner |Stéphane Carlier |Patrick Bringley |Gabriel García Márquez
When: 28th March 2024 @ 7:30 pm – 9:15 pm 2024-03-28T19:30:00+00:00 2024-03-28T21:15:00+00:00 Where: The Bookseller Crow 50 Westow St London SE19 3AF UK Contact: Join us for an evening with John Rogers in conversation with Travis Elborough about his new book, Welcome to New London – Journeys and Encounters in the Post-Olympic City. In Welcome to New London John Rogers invites us to join him on a captivating voyage through the ever-changing landscapes and communities of this iconic city. As a...
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
netgalley.com | Helen Garner
Cover Votes: 23 0 Please sign in to submit your valuable feedback. Sign In or Register Now. Talking about this book? Use #MonkeyGrip #NetGalley. More hashtag tips! The novel that launched the career of one of Australia’s greatest writers, following the doomed infatuations of a young, single mother, enthralled by the excesses of Melbourne's late-70s countercultureThe name Helen Garner commands near-universal acclaim.
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Oct 21, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Helen Garner |Kristin Hannah |Colleen Hoover
High times with the mother of autofiction. A dreamy sojourn in the druggy, sexy counterculture of mid-1970s Melbourne, Australia. “There was plenty of good dope around. Gracie was at school. The sun shone every day. I rode my bike everywhere. I went to the library. I was reading two novels a day. When Gracie came home from school we would doze off on my bed in the hot afternoon.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
news.nestia.com | Helen Garner
THE CHILDREN’S BACH, by Helen GarnerTHIS HOUSE OF GRIEF: The Story of a Murder Trial, by Helen GarnerI had never heard of the Australian writer Helen Garner when I started reading her novel “The Children’s Bach,” and the book puzzled me at first, before I got into the scatty, nonlinear rhythm of its prose.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Daphne Merkin |Helen Garner
THE CHILDREN’S BACH, by Helen GarnerTHIS HOUSE OF GRIEF: The Story of a Murder Trial, by Helen GarnerI had never heard of the Australian writer Helen Garner when I started reading her novel “The Children’s Bach,” and the book puzzled me at first, before I got into the scatty, nonlinear rhythm of its prose.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Helen Garner |Truman Capote |Bob Woodward
"There's got to be something wrong with somebody who'd do a thing like that." This is Perry Edward Smith, talking about himself. "Deal me out, baby...I'm a normal." This is Richard Eugene Hickock, talking about himself. They're as sick a pair as Leopold and Loeb and together they killed a mother, a father, a pretty 17-year-old and her brother, none of whom they'd seen before, in cold blood. A couple of days before they had bought a 100 foot rope to garrote them—enough for ten people if necessary.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
netgalley.com | Helen Garner
Description Now in a new edition with a foreword by Rumaan Alam, a modern classic from one of Australia’s greatest writers"The Children’s Bach is [Garner’s] masterpiece."—Public BooksSet in suburban Melbourne in the early 1980s, The Children’s Bach centers on Dexter and Athena Fox, their two sons, and the insulated world they’ve built together. Despite the routine challenges of domestic life, they are largely happy.
