On the daily
Jan 10, 2021
2 minutes
by HOLLY WALKER
‘I think I might burn all these diaries. What if I died and people got hold of them and read them?” For someone worried about people reading her diaries, Helen Garner – award-winning Australian author of five novels, three books of non-fiction, two film scripts, many collections of short stories and essays and now two volumes of diaries – has, which lifted the lid on the drug-addled social dynamics in the sprawling hippy collectives of Melbourne’s Fitzroy suburbs, to the self-reflexive true-crime reportage of and – draw extensively on the daily journals she has kept religiously from a young age.
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