Michelle de Kretser writes back to the ‘Woolfmother’ in Theory & Practice
- Written by Eda Gunaydin, Lecturer, International Studies, University of Wollongong
The narrator of Michelle de Kretser’s seventh novel Theory & Practice is younger than I was when she realises something we all do, eventually: sometimes there can be a great chasm between what we say, write, and purport to know and believe, and what we do.
She is 24, studying at a Melbourne university, and struggling to finish her thesis...





