How to End a Story

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WINNER, Baillie Gifford Prize 2025 Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book. "This is one of the greatest books I've ever read. End of story." ZADIE SMITH 'I revere Helen Garner's writing, and it's in her diaries that she's at her acute, rigorous, pitch-perfect best.' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Raw, incisive and, as she puts it, "bareknuckle". I can't wait to pour over them with a fellow reader.' DUA LIPA Spanning two decades-from the publication of her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s, to the throes of a consuming affair in the late 80s, and the messiness and pain of a disintegrating marriage in the late 90s-the diaries reveal the life of one of the world's greatest writers. Devastatingly honest and disarmingly funny, How to End a Story is a portrait of loss, betrayal, and the sheer force of a woman's anger-but also of hard work and resilience, moments of hope and joy, the immutable ties of motherhood, and the regenerative power of a room of one's own. PRAISE: 'Very well might be the finest literary diaries since Virginia Woolf's...' Daunt Books 'Compulsive reading' Colm T ibin, Irish Times 'Utterly moreish' Best memoirs and biographies of 2025 Guardian 'What a wonderful writer. Her prose is spare and beautiful...There are very few writers that I admire more.' David Nicholls 'An extraordinary work.' Lucy Caldwell, Irish Times 'A voice of great honesty and energy.' Anne Enright 'By turns dazzling, poignant and very, very funny.'

• Binding: Hardcover

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