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Helen Hayward Helen Hayward i(A153370 works by)
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Helen Hayward is Senior Writer for Forty Degrees South. She lived for twenty years in London where she wrote a PhD in pyschoanalysis and literature, taught English at the University of London, published her first book, and worked as a psychotherapist. She has lived in Adelaide, London and Melbourne and more recently, Hobart.

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y separately published work icon Home Work : Essays on Love & Housekeeping Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2023 26663605 2023 selected work essay 'When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking after her home was not. She had long been instructed to put her career first. So she did. Yet what to do with the mushrooming laundry by the bathroom door? And what about if she actually liked cooking? Home Work is a series of personal essays motivated by three questions.' (Publication summary) 
2024 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Non-Fiction Prize
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