This House of Grief av Helen Garner

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<p><b>ONE OF THE <i>GUARDIAN</i>''S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY</b><br><br><b>''<i>This House of Grief</i>, in its restraint and control, bears comparison with <i>In Cold Blood</i>'' KATE ATKINSON<br> ''It grabbed me by the throat in the same way that the podcast series <i>Serial</i> did'' GILLIAN ANDERSON</b><br><b>''Utterly gripping'' MARK HADDON</b><br><br>Father''s Day, 2005. Just after nightfall, a discarded husband drove his three young sons back to their mother, his ex-wife.<br><br>On that dark country road, barely five minutes from the children''s home, the old white car swerved off the highway and plunged into a dam. The father freed himself and swam to the bank, but the car sank to the bottom, and all the children drowned.<br><br>The court case that followed became Helen Garner''s obsession, one that would take over her life until its final verdict. The resulting book is a true-crime classic and literary masterpiece, which examines just what we are capable of and how f