About the Book: Season: From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Im trying to write about footy and my grandson and me. About boys at dusk. A
little life-hymn. A poem. A record of a season we spend together before he turns
into a man and I die.
Its footy season in Melbourne, and Helen Garner is following her grandsons
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.
Shes a passionate Western Bulldogs fan with an imperfect grasp of the rules, who
loves