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“It was the sad privilege of blood relations to love him despite all.”

This House of Grief by Helen Garner

January 4, 2024 by Pooja Leave a Comment

In Australia on Father’s Day, 2005, a car carrying a man and his three young sons careened into a dam. Robert Farquharson survived, but his sons drowned. The ensuing murder trial would drag on for seven long years. You really do stumble across books on Goodreads that you’d never get to read otherwise. I have never heard of this case or this author before, but when it popped up in my recommendations, I was intrigued enough to put in a request at the library – […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, Australia, crime, Helen Garner, murder, non fiction, true crime

Pooja's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, Australia, crime, Helen Garner, murder, non fiction, true crime ·
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An almost unbelievable true crime story

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner

April 26, 2022 by kniki Leave a Comment

I listened to this audio book as part of my project to read Helen Garner’s collection of books this year and also because of my horror/fascination at the crime and subsequent trial featured within. (As proof of this, I found the book on my shelf a few weeks after I finished listening, completely forgetting I had bought it at a second hand booksale.) In Australia the late 90s, a uni student plotted to murder her boyfriend, letting her best friend and some other uni mates […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Helen Garner

kniki's CBR14 Review No:7 · Genres: Audiobooks, Non-Fiction · Tags: Helen Garner ·
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A good start to my year of Helen Garner

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

April 3, 2022 by kniki 3 Comments

As promised to myself, this year I’m making my way through the works of Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist Helen Garner. And wouldn’t you know it, The Spare Room happened to turn up at a ‘swap rather than shop ‘ event with some friends (the clothes swaps having happily extended to books and household items, etc.) This is a short-ish novel that didn’t take long to read but stayed with me for a while after. Over the course of three weeks Helen (yes […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Helen Garner

kniki's CBR14 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Helen Garner ·
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