Helen Garner observes the trial of a father charged after the deaths of his three sons.

The courtroom provides evidence and procedure, but the human questions remain difficult to contain within either. Choose this for reported writing attentive to observation and moral uncertainty. The attraction is the disciplined act of looking closely at a devastating case without treating every emotional response as an answer.

WHO IS IT FOR?

For readers interested in reported lives, ideas and the forces shaping contemporary experience.