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This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial
This House of Grief The Story of a Murder Trial Author:Helen Garner Praise for Helen Garner's The Spare Room:"Helen Garner is a great writer."?Peter Carey"Swift, beautiful, and relentless."?Alice Sebold"The Joan Didion of Australia"?Los Angeles Times"Truthful, fearless, passionate."?Kate GrenvilleOn the evening of 4 September 2005, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their... more » mother when his car plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven, and two, drowned. Was this an act of deliberate revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She was in the courtroom every day of Farquharson's trial and subsequent retrial, along with countless journalists and the families of both the accused and his former wife.In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. At its core is a search for truth that takes author and reader through complex psychological terrain. Garner exposes, with great compassion, that truth and justice are as complex as human frailty and morality.Part of a nonfiction tradition that began with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and continues in the works of Janet Malcolm, Erroll Morris, and others.Helen Garner, born in 1942, is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel The Spare Room was published to critical acclaim in 2010.« less