Missing Perspectives

When Elizabeth Harrower stopped writing at the height of her powers in the early 1970s, it was more than a literary mystery in the Australian publishing scene. We now know that it was a story about what happens when women’s voices are undervalued, exhausted or ignored.

Antonia Pont's new book Plain Life: On Thinking, Feeling, and Deciding asks a pretty major question: What if the 'plain life' isn't boring or lesser, but actually the place where we finally get to breathe, listen, and become recognisable to ourselves again?