Love Child
Penguin $6.95 pb, 107 pp
The Risks of Slenderness
Choosing between the lines
by Kate Ahearne •
It must have seemed as natural to Penguin as money in the bank to ask Helen Gamer to provide a few enticing words for the cover of Jean Bedford’s new book, Love Child. Here, it would appear, is a book very much in the Garner backyard – short, domestic, ‘certainly not ‘loud’ or attention-seeking, but nicely crafted.
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