That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.
Helen GarnerAt the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
Helen GarnerBut I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.
Helen GarnerThe rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.
Helen Garner