'The third volume of Helen Garner’s diaries, How to End a Story: Diaries Volume III 1995–1998, said to be the last in the series, purports to chroni-cle the breakdown of Garner’s third marriage. In Australia we have something called no-fault divorce; here Garner is serving up instead a score-settling hatchet job on an ex that is without precedent in Australian letters.' (Introduction)