I never thought my footy pre-season would include Helen Garner… but then came her glorious memoir, The Season.

But this is not an ordinary book about football. As Garner explained –

Blokes I know get excited when I tell them I’m trying to write about footy … I think they’re imagining the books they would write. Their books would be full of facts and stats and names and memories. They have been formed by footy. I can’t do it their way. I don’t know how. I get panicky. The only thing I can think of to say is, ‘It’ll be a nanna’s book about footy.’ Short silences fall. Continue reading →