Charlotte Wood, author of The Children says... My writing room is a small room above a shed separate from our house in Marrickville, Sydney (I'm told the shed bit downstairs was once a stable; all I can say is that it must have been a very tiny horse). You can see the iron stair rail … Continue reading Charlotte Wood's Literary Space
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Two Short Stories I Like
I came across this wonderful story by Charlotte Wood on her website, after reading The Children, called 'Honeymoon' And winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Novice Writers Award - Joseph Ryan's 'Stranger Than Beautiful'
The Children by Charlotte Wood
9781741753356, Allen & Unwin, 2007 The perfect book for me is one that is about the extraordinariness of everyday life - the things that human beings acknowledge, and the things they deny; the amazement, comfort and simultaneous hurt in personal relationships; the wealth beneath the surface, but also the necessity of surfaces. Charlotte Wood looks … Continue reading The Children by Charlotte Wood