The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

海伦·加纳笔下的野蛮郊区:“我恨不得用球棒教训马丁·艾米斯一顿”

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  • This article contains some swearing the Savage Suburbia of Helen Garner I Wanted to Dong Martin Amis with a Bat by Sophie Elmhurst Read by Nicolette Chinn in early January,

  • the Australian author Helen Garner decided to cut back an unruly bush in her garden.

  • Garner lives in a Melbourne suburb, in the adjoining house to her daughter,

  • son in law, three grandchildren, some chickens and a dog.

  • The family were away at the beach for the holidays and Ghana found herself alone in an off kilter frame of mind.