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The Season

One Melbourne football season, watched from the cold sidelines by a grandmother who loves every minute of it.
Reading guide
The Season is a standalone book, so there is no order to follow. Start here and read it straight through, following the season from first training session to finals push.
Garner, in her eighties, follows her youngest grandson's under-16s team through a Melbourne football season, attending games and training sessions and recording what she sees, the boys' triumphs and defeats, and her own fears and pleasure as a devoted Western Bulldogs supporter.

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Helen Garner, in her eighties, spends a footy season following her youngest grandson's under-16s team in Melbourne. She goes to nearly every game and training session, a devoted Western Bulldogs fan with a shaky grasp of the rules and a sharp eye for everything else. The publisher describes the book as a record of a season the two of them spend together before he turns into a man.

What emerges is part chronicle, part love letter. Garner writes about boys learning grit and grace together, about the fear of a grandmother watching him in the scrum, and about a team fighting for a place in the finals. Her candour and dry humour run through the whole book, which the publisher calls an exuberant tribute to team spirit and the power of the game to thrill.

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