Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner

'This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity – a book of witness. Now a Major Motion Picture '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.' It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers. 1 It concerns the increasingly fraught relationship between an engineer, Joe, and his narcissistic law student girlfriend Anu in Canberra in the mid 1990s. 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 Cinque's Consolation is the screen adaptation of Helen Garner's celebrated account of those events. Joe Cinque's Consolation is a 2016 Australian drama film directed by Sotiris Dounoukos based on the book of the same name by Helen Garner. Compassionate but unflinching, this is an audiobook about how and why Joe Cinque died. Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. 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. An adaptation of Australian writer Helen Garner’s acclaimed 2004 book, Joe Cinque’s Consolation is the sorry true story of Canberra law student Anu Singh, who killed her boyfriend in 1997 by. Some of the dinner guests – most of them students – had heard rumours of the plan. 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. Most widely held works about Helen Garner Everywhere I look by Helen Garner ( Book ) Serious noticing : selected essays, 1997-2019 by James Wood ( Book ) A. National bestselling author Award winning author Australian author 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