‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’ by Jonathan Ricketson

This week on The ABR Podcast Jonathan Ricketson reviews The Season by Helen Garner. Ricketson explains that The Season is a memoir of Garner watching her grandson ‘Amby play for the Flemington Juniors in the Under-16s, from February to August 2023’. The experience involves an effacement of self, the grandmother on the sidelines rendered a ‘silent witness’. Jonathan Ricketson is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Monash University, where he is working on a novel. Here is Jonathan Ricketson with ‘Silent witness: A ‘little life-hymn’ from Helen Garner’, published in the December issue of ABR. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.