With recent reprints of The Children’s Bach and This House of Grief, Helen Garner’s voice returns in two of her best works — a novel featuring the intricacies of complicated family life and a nonfiction account of one of Australia’s most shocking criminal cases. Garner joins us to talk about how she came to write each of these stories, keeping diaries, the complexities of human character and more with Miwa Messer, host of Poured Over.  

 This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Executive Producer Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang.            

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Featured Books (Episode): The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner 

This House of Grief by Helen Garner  

Monkey Grip by Helen Garner