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fine book that looks chaos directly in the face and attempts to record it.' - Tegan Bennett Daylight * Sydney Morning Herald * ` passionate, piercingly observed farewell to what Blain loved most in life. It moves between its subjects, using the writer's illness reflexively, leading into description of the things most important to her. Blain simply continues to write, her voice faltering only occasionally, until her final sentence.' - Susan Wyndham * Weekend Australian * ` is not a memoir of dying, although it is about illness and treatment, and the impossibility of saying goodbye. She does not argue for voluntary euthanasia and even notes that her mother, once an advocate, went quiet on the subject after she became ill. She does not try to make sense of what was happening and does not rail against fate's cruelty. We are so lucky to be able to read it.' - Stella Charls * Readings * `A fine short memoir that looks both inward and outward to tell a patchwork story of four women and their shifting relationships with one another and with words, their medium for living.

wise, tender, and heart-rending.' - Nicole Abadee * AFR * `An incredible gift for those who loved Blain, those who valued her writing, and those who are still to discover this great writer. Museum is calm and tender and wise and brisk.' * The Listener * `A powerful meditation on the power of language and writing.

With her last book Blain proves that one can indeed, and most significantly, "go gently into that good night".' - Mika Provata-Carlone * Bookanista * `Blain seamlessly reveals joys and complications of her family, and manages to provide some keen insights into the art and graft of telling stories.

Also with true verbal beauty and lyrical evocativeness. `The paradox of writing about life while trying to live it, a perspective that perhaps comes only from looking back from the end.' - Katy Hershberger * Shelf Awareness * `The Museum of Words is a very powerful, private essay on the end of being, invested with an unshakeable sense of presence, of fellow-humanity.