The Season by Helen Garner Historical Fiction

The Season by Helen Garner Historical FictionPaperback Garner's first new work in a decade is a tender portrayal of the relationship between grandmother and grandson, and of that moment on the cusp of adulthood when a boy is both child and man. It's footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandson's under 16s team. She not only goes to every game (give or take), but to every training session too, shivering on the sidelines at dusk, fascinated by the spectacle. She's a

But hope is not lost

in December of 1984

No more trying to impress mean girl Amber

She even has some good ideas how to do it

Alexandra Jennings steps back through a doorway into Medora

Douglas Garrick has done wrong

we need to learn how we can use them healthily and safely

But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle

A position as governess at the Thornfield Hall promises a kind of freedom

and make a compelling case that by ignoring the looming threat of conspiratorial thinking

In this book

an exquisitely moving story about grief