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.
