About the Book: True Stories
Helen Garner is one of Australias most widely loved and critically acclaimed
authors. She has published classic novels, true crime narratives, scripts,
diaries, stories and plays. But, between it all, she paid the bills with
journalism. True Stories collects the revered Australian writers short
non-fiction written over a period of almost fifty years. In its pages, Garner
visits the morgue and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving
birth, gets the sack for teaching her students about sex, attends a school dance
and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, about days spent
in courtrooms following