• Joe Cinque's Consolation

  • By: Helen Garner
  • Narrated by: Helen Garner
  • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Joe Cinque's Consolation

By: Helen Garner
Narrated by: Helen Garner
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.

Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.

It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.

Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005
Winner of the ABIA Book of the Year 2004

©2019 Helen Garner (P)2019 Macmillan Australia Audio

Critic reviews

"Garner's book is a writer's profound response to a tragedy and to questions about human responsibility over time as well as at precise moments." (The Age)

"This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness..." (Australian Book Review)

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Singularly disappointing

I've read Garner's other books so I thought I knew what to expect with this one, but I found myself thinking what exactly is this book? It doesn't seem like reportage as it's a very subjective piece of writing and Garner constantly uses surprisingly judgemental language in describing some of the main actors. But the other big question: why is the writer reading this? Garner should not give up her day-job, as a narrator she most certainly is not. Perplexing and irritating.

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