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One Day I'll Remember This

Diaries 1987-1995

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One Day I'll Remember This

By: Helen Garner
Narrated by: Helen Garner
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Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work.

With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising. And through it all we see the elevating, and grounding, power of work and the enduring value of friendship.

©2020 Helen Garner (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Art & Literature Authors Diaries & Journals Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence Women

Critic Reviews

"Garner is scrupulous, painstaking, and detailed, with sharp eyes and ears. She is everywhere at once, watching and listening, a recording angel at life’s secular apocalypses...her unillusioned eye makes her clarity compulsive." (The New Yorker)

"On the page, Garner is uncommonly fierce, though this usually has the effect on me of making her seem all the more likeable. I relish her fractious, contrarian streak - she wears it as a chef would a bloody apron - even as I worry about what it would be like to have to face it down." (Guardian)
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It simply bubbled along beautifully, seamlessly & effortlessly! incredibly relatqble particularly as a post 40 year old woman. Thank you Helen for another terrific piece of your work 👏

loved it!

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The first volume was excellent, but this is even better. Garner's writing gets even more precise as she ages, examining fragment after fragment of feeling, acting, seeing, loving, struggling, questioning, persisting. We are so lucky to have her read the diaries. I love her wry, tough, kind and honest voice.

highly recommended

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Such honesty. I’ll certainly remember this audiobook! Initially I did not think I would like an autobiographical, but this one was marvellous.

Helen reading her life.

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