Cirrus@Austlit

'Most readers of Helen Garner will be able to pinpoint a first personal encounter with her work: a book, or even a sentence, that cut through like sharp light; a local landmark suddenly immortalised on the page; an unsayable bodily experience transformed into the unabashedly said.'  (Introduction)

'After it happened, I’d walk in slow circles outside the house looking for her, my feet hardening and my skin turning a deep red.

'So begins The Furies, the work of debut novelist Mandy Beaumont.'