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Second half first : a memoir

Modjeska, Drusilla2015

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Richly textured, combining memoir with literary criticism, Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years which have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, growing up with a father she admired deeply but felt she never really knew, to her time as a young newly-wed, living with her husband in Papua New Guinea; arriving as a single woman in Sydney in the 1970s and building close friendships with writers such as Helen Garner and the lovers who would sometimes briefly derail her, this new book by Drusilla Modjeska is an intensely personal and moving account of a truly examined life.