20th century Australian fiction
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories
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Australian literary history
Australian literature
Australian women writers
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Christina Stead
Cynthia Nolan
Domestic violence
domestic violence novels
Down in the City
Elizabeth Harrower
Elizabeth Harrower biography
Emotional trauma
emotional trauma in literature
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literary biography Australia
Literary neglect
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Margaret Dick
Mental health in fiction
NewSouth books
Patrick White
Postwar Australia
Psychological Fiction
Publishing history
Richard Kempley
Shirley Hazzard
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The Catherine Wheel
The Fun of the Fair
The Long Prospect
The Retrospective Grandmother
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Product details
- ISBN 9781761170195
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2025
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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Australian novelist Elizabeth Harrower wrote some of the most intense, original and highly regarded psychological fiction of the twentieth century. Then she abruptly stopped writing in the 1970s and became one of the most puzzling mysteries of Australian literature. Why didn’t she continue? Harrower gave elusive answers to friends and interviewers, and only since her death in 2020 has a deeper search been possible. When Harrower’s four novels were brought back into print between 2012 and 2014, followed by a novel she had withdrawn from her publisher in 1971 and a collection of her short stories, a renaissance of admiration followed. In this engrossing biography, Susan Wyndham grapples with the questions that remained unanswered, the dynamics of Harrower’s circles of famous friends, and her remarkable books and their timeless dissections of the human heart.
Susan Wyndham is a writer and journalist who has been New York correspondent forThe Australian newspaper and literary editor of theSydney MorningHerald. Her most recent book, co-edited with Brigitta Olubas, is Hazzard and Harrower: The letters. In 2024 she was awarded a National Library of Australia Fellowship to research the life of Elizabeth Harrower.
