Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner

'This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness. 'This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity - a book of witness.' Australian Book Review '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 In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner. Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005 It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers. 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. Joe Cinques Consolation By Helen Garner paperback27 September 2016 24.99 or 4 payments of 6.25 with Learn more ADD TO CART Booklovers earn 1. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. She has twice written true-crime novels: first with Joe Cinques Consolation, a report about the court proceedings of a young man who died at the hands of his girlfriend and again in 2014, with This House of Grief. T he death of young engineer Joe Cinque at the hands of his girlfriend, law student Anu Singh, was made famous by Helen Garner in her 2004 book Joe Cinque’s Consolation.

Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Garners works have covered a broad range of themes and subject matter. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.

He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. Crimes Amendment (Diminished Responsibility) Act 1997 (No 106) 23A 1. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Helen Garner, Joe Cinques Consolation (Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Limited, 2006). 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. A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner