![]() She nursed for eight years before returning to study some more and then teach nursing. ![]() Add to that her time as a nurse and she’s been watching people’s behaviour since she was 18 years old, if not earlier. Along the way she has learned something about human behaviour. I just wanted to create these six people who were trying to get through to the next day.”Īt 78, Itani has lived a life of observation, that has produced 18 books including That’s My Baby, Tell, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, Requiem and Deafening, which won a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. ![]() “I didn’t want my characters sitting around contemplating their own mortality and thinking ‘I’m at stage one, two or three’. “Let me make clear to you first of all that I absolutely avoided looking up anything to do with the stages of grief. ![]() The Company We Keep by Frances Itani (Harper Collins)īut before we get too immersed, this novel is not an examination of the seven stages of grief, Itani told ARTSFILE. ![]()
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