{"product_id":"how-to-end-a-story","title":"How to End a Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLooking out the window at the two big gum trees, as it gets dark, I think: the only way I can go on keeping a diary - the bits about myself, anyway, i.e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emost of it - is to conceive of it as a record of soul. Helen Garner has kept a diary for most of her adult life. Now she is widely recognised as one of the greatest writers of our age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut, of all her books, it is her diaries that she likes best. Collected for the first time into one volume, these inimitable diaries show Garner like never before: as a fledging author in bohemian Melbourne, publishing her lightning-rod debut novel while raising a young daughter in the 1970s; in the throes of an all-consuming love affair in the 1980s; and clinging to a disintegrating marriage in the 1990s. How to End a Story reveals the inner life of a woman in love, a mother, a friend and a formidable writer at work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold with devastating honesty, steel-sharp wit and an ecstatic attention to the details of everyday life, it offers all the satisfactions of a novel alongside the enthralling intimacy of something written in private and just for pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Garner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56021556986234,"sku":"9781399606745","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781399606745.jpg?v=1760446831","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/how-to-end-a-story","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}