Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. She moved to London in 1951. Her first novel Down in the City was published in 1957, and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney where she began working for the ABC and as a book reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. The Watch Tower appeared in 1966. A new short story collection A Few Days in the Country has just been released by Text Publishing (October 2015). Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney.

'It is Margaret', a new story by Elizabeth Harrower

October 2015, no. 375 • 25 September 2015

Before the ceremony began, the woman with hairy legs and an air of having just abandoned a cigarette wandered as though at a party to the coffin where – though it was impossible and not so – Clelia’s mother, Margaret, was. Three days ago, four days ago, Clelia had said to her mother, ‘Come and see the blossom I’ve brought back.’ She had just returned to Sydney after a three-week absenc ... (read more)