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2026 Thumbnail Review #12 The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner

Splinty, spiky: the prose, the structure, the situations, the characters all match up. This 1984 novella by Helen Garner, set in Melbourne…

Richard Swan · 2026-04-21 11:12 · 0 claps · 0.4 min read
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2026 Thumbnail Review #12 The Children’s Bach by Helen Garner

Splinty, spiky: the prose, the structure, the situations, the characters all match up. This 1984 novella by Helen Garner, set in Melbourne, deals in fragments of experience and event in the lives of the half dozen main characters, who are complicatedly interrelated.

It’s never clear where it’s going, so ultimately an unfulfilling read.

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