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Author Garner, Helen, 1942- author

Title This house of grief : the story of a murder trial / Helen Garner
Published Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2014
Melbourne : Text Publishing, 2014
©2014

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Description 300 pages ; 23 cm
Contents "Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain. On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict. In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience, all gathered for the purpose of bearing witness to the truth, players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice. This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and unputdownable book by one of Australia's most admired writers." -- Publisher's website
Summary Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain. On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father's Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged ten, seven and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident? The court case became Helen Garner's obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict. In this utterly compelling book, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience, all gathered for the purpose of bearing witness to the truth, players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice. This House of Grief is a heartbreaking and unputdownable book by one of Australia's most admired writers
Analysis Australian
Biography & autobiography (Australia)
Crime & criminology (Australia)
Notes Not ot be renewed
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Notes Shortlisted, Kibble Award, 2015
Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Prime Minister's Literary Awards, 2015
Shortlisted, Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen BookDataBooksellers Choice Award, 2015
Winner, True Crime, Ned Kelly Awards, year 2015
Subject Farquharson, Robert, 1969-
Farquharson, Robert, 1969- -- Trials, litigation, etc
Gambino, Cindy.
Children -- Crimes against -- Australia.
Custody of children -- Australia.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Australia -- Victoria.
Filicide -- Australia.
Mothers of murder victims -- Australia.
Murder victims -- Australia -- Victoria -- Geelong (Vic.)
Murder -- Australia -- Case studies.
Murder -- Australia.
Trials (Murder) -- Australia.
Trials (Murder) -- Australia -- Victoria.
Genre/Form Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Case studies.
ISBN 1922079200
9781922079206