I found this article by Gay Alcorn in The Age this morning. I don't think I had heard of Elizabeth Harrower or The Watch Tower (1966) but I am so glad this book has been re-published by Text Publishing and I will make a point of reading it. I remember being surprised that Sumner Locke Elliot's beautiful book Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) was out of print and was so glad that Text Publishing planned to re-publish it. I can remember reading and re-reading Careful, He Might Hear You as a teenager and being completely entranced by it. These books are from another time but part of their appeal for me is that they capture something of our culture that is only just passed - something within the lifetime of my parents' generation, that is fading from our collective memory. And how wonderful that these books are coming back into publication and that for Elizabeth Harrower at least, there will be a new wave of recognition for the author while she is still with us.
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