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Maggie Mackellar
May 01, 2023
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On the edge of the day

Once, a long time ago, I was asked to speak at a conference at Sydney University on the intersection between narrative and health. Dr Bernadette Brennan had brought together medicos and writers and asked what fertile ground existed between the two. I was on a panel with Helen Garner and Brenda Walker and I was suitably awed.

Garner…

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