Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser Crime with a little hero that

with a little hero that all children will identify with

is back to solve the perennial problem of what's for dinner tonight

how far will they go to keep Pip from the truth …

and they have something sinister in store for Petey the Cat

but Agrippina sees no obstacles to her ambition

Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser Crime with a little hero thatPaperback It's 1986, and 'beautiful, radical ideas' are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students and Kit. He claims to be in a 'deconstructed' relationship, and they become lovers. Meanwhile, her work on the Woolfmother falls into disarray. Theory & Practice is a mesmerising account of desire and jealousy, truth and shame. It makes and unmakes