This house of grief: the story of a murder trial. Helen Garner. 2014.

On Father’s Day 2005, three young boys drowned when the car their father was driving went off the road and plunged into a dam.

Was it possible that this could be a deliberate act, an embittered ex-husband’s revenge on his wife? When the case went to court, it became Helen Garner’s obsession, and she followed the proceedings until the final verdict.

In This House of Grief, Garner describes the theatre of the court-its actors and audience all gathered to bear witness to an elusive truth-in an of the quest for justice.