This House of Grief
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This House of Grief is a 2014 non-fiction book by Helen Garner. Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its subject matter is the trial and conviction of Robert Farquharson for the murder of his thre
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Joe Cinque's Consolation
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Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law is a non-fiction book written by Australian author Helen Garner, and published in 2004.
This House of Grief
…previously written about legal cases as "an old hand at using a novelist’s technique to create a pointillist image of a trial" in The First Stone and Joe Cinque's Consolation. In the UK daily newspaper The Guardian, Kate Clanchy wrote, "[…] the whole book feels final, elegiac – perhaps because for all the horror, it is so…
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