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Helen Garner

Helen Garner was born in 1942 in Geelong and educated at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a high school teacher until her first novel Monkey Grip was published in 1977. It was an instant success, winning a National Book Council award in 1978 and becoming a film in 1982. Since then she has written full-time, publishing novels, short stories, essays, journalism and long-form non-fiction. In 2006, Garner was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature, in 2016 the international Windham-Campbell Prize for Nonfiction, in 2019 the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and in 2020 the Lloyd O’Neil Award for Services to the Australian Book Industry at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Most recently, Garner was awarded the 2023 ASA Medal by the Australian Society of Authors for her outstanding contribution to Australian culture.

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Title:

Joe Cinque's Consolation (MP3)

Written by:

Helen Garner 

Read by:

Helen Garner 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

8 hours 19 minutes 

MP3 size:

359 MB 

Published:

June 28 2019 

Available Date:

June 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655602491 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Biography; True Crime 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan Australia 

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Format

Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 44.95

AUD$ 44.95

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National bestselling author
Award winning author
Australian author

Winner Ned Kelly Award / Best True Crime 2005
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / Book of the Year 2004
Winner ASA Medal 2023

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 the Australian National University made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests – most of them 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 an audiobook 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.

'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