Cirrus@Austlit

'The End of the Morning is the final and unfinished autobiographical novel by Charmain Clift, Australian writer and journalist whose literary life in Hydra was romanticised during the 60s. The book is published here for the first time, alongside an afterword by Nadia Wheatley, Clift’s biographer and editor of the book, plus a new selection of Clift’s weekly newspaper columns. According to Wheatley, the novel is what Clift regarded as her most significant work. Although she did not live to complete it, the manuscript has been revised and is presented as a novella.' (Introduction)