This House of Grief
The Story of a Murder Trial
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Narrateur(s):
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Kate Hood
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Auteur(s):
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Helen Garner
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This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia's most admired authors. 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 10, 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 audiobook, 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 to witness to the truth - players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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Histoire2 out of 5 stars
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- 2023-02-13
A description of a trial? Hardly.
The authors are two unqualified reporters who have written a stream of consciousness, not a chronologically clear, immersive book. They spend more ink writing about themselves and subjects about which they are interested than they do about the trial. You will, for example, not read a single question in examination-in-chief or cross-examination, not a single submission to the court or to the jury. They tell you at length how boring the trial is, which begs the question of why they have purported to write a boring book about it. The content of the first three weeks of the trial is encompassed by a brief sketch of who the leading lawyers are and how they wear their gowns and whigs,with a brief discussion of the crown prosecutor’s use of voice. No description of the assisting (second seats) is given other than a remark about one of them coming to court on the first day wearing ankle-strapped stilleto-healed shoes. This is not just a book to pass on, but to be avoided if you value your time and decent writing. Why a publisher accepted it must remain a mystery.
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