Review

In publishing her diaries, Yellow Notebook, Helen Garner gives us a glimpse into the process of her painstaking craft

By Christine Kearney
December 7 2019 - 5:00am
Australian author Helen Garner. Picture: Darren James
Australian author Helen Garner. Picture: Darren James

While jotting down notes for this review, I came across a quote from Zinky Boys, Svetlana Alexievich's grassroots account of Russia's tragic invasion of Afghanistan. In it, the Nobel Prize winner quotes Pushkin: "To write or tell the whole truth about oneself is a physical impossibility".