For decades now, Helen Garner has established herself as one of Australia’s most tenacious literary observers of men and boys. They fascinate her. And now she’s 80, and her youngest grandson, Amby, is playing footy.
The Season is written from the sidelines as the Colts U16s train and play their way through one drizzly Melbourne winter. It is, Garner writes, ‘‘a record of a season we are spending together before he turns into a man and I die”, a reckoning with the elements and cycles of life.
