Readers love Helen Garner's three volumes of diaries, the apparent ease with which this brilliant writer skewers those who, barely disguised, are part of her life history. For Shannon Burns, writing a memoir about a difficult and chaotic childhood was an act of recovering flashes of memory: to go back is both necessary and dangerous. They talk to Sophie Cunningham about whether writing is an act of forgiveness and, if so, for whom?

Recorded on 7th May, 2023.