This House of Grief: The true crime classic from the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Mar 2024 · Hachette UK
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Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025
One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece' ANNE ENRIGHT
'Bears comparison with In Cold Blood' KATE ATKINSON
'It grabbed me by the throat' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Sharp and forensic' DUA LIPA
Father's Day, 2005. Just after nightfall, a discarded husband was driving his three young sons back to their mother's house.
On that dark country road, barely five minutes from home, the old white car swerved off the highway and plunged into a dam. The father freed himself and swam to the bank, but the car sank to the bottom, and all the children drowned.
The court case that followed became Helen Garner's obsession, one that would take over her life until its final verdict.
The resulting book, This House of Grief, is a true crime classic and literary masterpiece, which examines just what we are capable of and how fiercely we hide it from ourselves.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Rachel Cooke
One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece' ANNE ENRIGHT
'Bears comparison with In Cold Blood' KATE ATKINSON
'It grabbed me by the throat' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Sharp and forensic' DUA LIPA
Father's Day, 2005. Just after nightfall, a discarded husband was driving his three young sons back to their mother's house.
On that dark country road, barely five minutes from home, the old white car swerved off the highway and plunged into a dam. The father freed himself and swam to the bank, but the car sank to the bottom, and all the children drowned.
The court case that followed became Helen Garner's obsession, one that would take over her life until its final verdict.
The resulting book, This House of Grief, is a true crime classic and literary masterpiece, which examines just what we are capable of and how fiercely we hide it from ourselves.
A W&N Essential with an introduction by Rachel Cooke
About the author
Helen Garner was born in Geelong in 1942. She worked as a high school teacher, then as a freelance journalist. Since 1977 she has published novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief, Monkey Grip and The Children's Bach.
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