'Adelaide Hills author Eva Hornung is a "little surprised' The Last Garden has attracted the attention of literary judges but her 2017 novel - which is on the Miles Franklin shortlist after winning the South Australian Premier's Award for Fiction earlier this year - is a powerful Australian fable.' (Introduction)
'Part of Adelaide's literary set of the 1940s, Carys Harding Browne wrote diaries that reveal how this fledgling group of influential writers and thinkers grew up and fell in love against a backdrop of World War II. Ann Barson, who edited the diaries for the book Carys: Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide 1940-42, explains how she found and then edited her mother's diaries.' (Introduction)
