Review: This House of Grief by Helen Garner
On Father's Day 2005, a horrific incident occurred in rural Victoria when a Holden Commodore plunged into a dam. The driver pulled himself free of the vehicle and swam out of the damn. The three passengers, his sons aged 10, 7 and 2 drowned inside the vehicle. As far the police were concerned, the evidence was obvious. Robert Farquharson was soon charged with murder. Things were more complex behind the scenes. In This House of Grief beloved Australian author Helen Garner turns her hand to investigating the crime, and details the evidence presented in court at both trials--during which she was present as a member of the public. Through this she tells a story of an unhappy marriage, of Robert Farquharson's obsession with getting revenge on Cindy Morales, mother of the children and his former wife who had left him for another man, and of Cindy Morales herself, a woman who had married on the rebound and who, in her grief believed that her ex-husband was innocent, though as she cont...