Richly textured, combining memoir with literary criticism, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past 30 years which have shaped her writing, her reading, and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, growing up with a father she admired deeply but felt she never really knew, to her time as a young newlywed, living with her husband in Papua New Guinea; arriving as a single woman in Sydney in the...