Charmian Clift’s taut, intimate, unfinished novel feels like a slightly broken book
- Written by Paul Genoni, Associate Professor, School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry, Curtin University
Author providedThe publication of The End of the Morning is a long-awaited moment in Australian literature.
Readers familiar with Charmian Clift will be aware this book’s protagonist, Cressida Morley, is the writer’s alter-ego. Morley was to have been the vehicle for Clift’s self-representation in an autobiographical novel she...





