AustLit

'Nova Weetman’s Love, Death & Other Scenes is an elegiac memoir, a subgenre of memoir that gives ballast to stories of everyday lives by focusing on life’s ultimate drama: death. Of course, the everyday and mortality are intimate companions. When the poet Philip Larkin asks, “Where can we live but days?”, the question brings “the priest and the doctor / In their long coats / Running over the fields.”' (Introduction)   

'As with all of Charmian Clift’s writing, The End of the Morning – published almost 55 years after her death – is a combination of mid-20th century charm and sharp-edged observation. Called a novel in the new book, it is more of a long fragment. A novella, perhaps.' (Introduction)