The First Stone

Had the impact of an avalanche * Guardian *
A brilliantly prescient book - in its complexity, in the tense torque of its self-argument, and in its very vulnerability and stunned intolerance … What consumes her are the difficult questions that seem to lie beyond the reach of formal narration: the deepest assumptions of class and gender and power; the problem of how well we ever understand someone else’s motives * New Yorker *
This is writing of great boldness … an intense, eloquent and enthralling work * The Australian *
An invaluable guide into harrowing territory – Kate Atkinson
Our greatest contemporary practitioner of observation, self-interrogation and compassion. Everything she writes, in her candid, graceful prose, rings true, enlightens, stays – Joan London

Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children’s Bach.

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