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  • Rodney Wetherell
  • 08-05-16

Fine telling of sad story

Helen Garner has recreated a very long trial and retrial which few of us would have sat through. It is a fine book, very well read here.

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  • Kindle Customer
  • 01-12-17

Terrible narrator

I just couldn't stand the narration on this, it made me cringe the entire book. It was so over the top theatre drama student and distracted from the narrative.

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  • Helena
  • 07-25-18

Narration could have been better

I wish I actually read this book. The unfortunate story was well written, keeping me interested. However, the narrator's performance was irritable when quoting barristers and witnesses...

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  • Sue
  • 06-05-18

Difficult topic well covered

An in-depth coverage of a murder trial in modern Australia. Well written and interesting, despite the horrendous content.

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  • ally burgo
  • 02-22-18

Disturbing and brilliant

This is such a distressing story but incredibly well written and well performed. I couldn’t stop listening, even though I was familiar with the story. I felt like I was right there in the court room watching it play out.

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  • Jeanette
  • 09-17-17

captive storytelling by Helen Garner.

Kate gave a great performance that rang true to Helen's voice. The story was raw with real emotions. I loved the book. Normally I wouldn't have read about the subject; to painful. Helen Garner is an amazing, honest writer. Her writing had me captivated the whole time.

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  • Elizabeth Young
  • 05-31-17

Worst reader EVER

I hate this reader so much. She ruined an extremely good book. When reading normally she was quite good, but as soon as characters spoke she put on horrible accents, as it's a court-based story, speech is constant. She gave the defendant and witnesses terribly done, 'occa Aussie' accents making them sound like they had low IQs and were idiots. The judges and prosecutor had hoity toity pseudo-British accents for some stupid reason, and the defence lawyer had a mixture of both. This also made the story seem biased, as it was a crime story - seemed like the narrator wanted the listener to think the defendant was stupid and guilty and the prosecution superior and more educated to the defence. This impression would not have come across in the text as written. Then she started putting on accents for American witnesses and it got to be too much. Not to mention her revolting depiction of people expressing emotion - whenever the text read '...she cried' or '...said through a choked voice' etc she put on this very hard to listen to pretend crying voice complete with sighs and whinging noises for bad effect.

I really enjoyed the story of this book but she absolutely ruined it to the point of every time a person spoke, I'd cringe and grimace waiting for her stupid voices to stop. I wish I'd just read the book not listened to it as I hated it and would never recommend it to anyone with this narrator.

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  • meenah
  • 04-04-17

Sensitive analysis of a sad story

the story is a sad one, the telling of it is intriguing. As usual Garner's storytelling provides a detailed and fascinating account.