The Boy Behind the Curtain Anthologies A Manual for How to

A Manual for How to Love Us spotlights women who are living on the brink and clinging to its precipitous edge

the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation

complete with its vast collection of priceless works of art

first of all

but she has nothing to wear

The Boy Behind the Curtain Anthologies A Manual for How toThis highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and Land's Edge (both also first published in paperback in 2017), it forms the remarkable culmination of Winton's autobiographical trilogy, showing our finest novelist also to be one of our finest writers of non fiction. 'Being a copper's son, I've always got one eye out for trouble. I can't help it. But I don't go looking for it