Helen Garner Reads from Her Gripping Courtroom Drama, This House of Grief

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This month on the Service95 Book Club podcast, Dua is joined by legendary Australian author Helen Garner to discuss her quietly devastating masterpiece, This House Of Grief. Selected as Dua’s Monthly Read for August, this true crime classic recounts the harrowing case of Robert Farquharson, a father accused of drowning his three young sons by driving them into a dam on Father’s Day. In a Service95 exclusive, Helen reads the haunting opening pages of the book – a passage that sets the emotional tone for everything that follows. Her voice carries the weight of a story that has never left the Australian psyche, and her reflections throughout the episode explore the moral complexities of guilt,…