Looking for Elizabeth

<h2><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The full story of an Australian literary enigma</span></h2><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Why did Elizabeth Harrower - one of Australia's most important postwar authors - stop writing at the height of her powers?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>After publishing four books that earned the admiration of Patrick White Shirley Hazzard and Christina Stead Harrower published no more novels. She faded from the literary landscape until being rediscovered decades later to international acclaim.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Looking for Elizabeth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> Helen Trinca unravels this mystery. Exploring the personal and artistic forces that shaped Harrower's writing she draws a sensitive portrait of a wounded 'divorced child' and the legacy of abandonment she carried throughout her life. She probes the contradictions of a woman who wielded extraordinary insight into others' lives but guarded her own fiercely. And she vividly brings to life the literary circles of this fascinating era in Australian culture.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Based on interviews with Harrower and full access to her archive </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Looking for Elizabeth</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is the first full biography of this significant figure in Australian letters.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'A masterful deep dive into the enigmatic life of a writer who stunned and then stopped. This is a monumental addition to Australian literary biography that's destined to become a classic.' -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Nikki Gemmell</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>'A biography that is every bit as beguiling and complex as its towering subject. Exacting exhaustive and utterly essential. The more I read the more compelled I felt to cut out a picture of Elizabeth Harrower and stick it above my writing desk.' -</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Trent Dalton</strong></p>