Dua Lipa's Book Club Pick for August 2025 One of the Guardian 's 100 Best Books of the 21st
Century 'A true-crime classic and literary masterpiece' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Bears comparison with
In Cold Blood ' KATE ATKINSON 'It grabbed me by the throat' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'Sharp and
forensic' DUA LIPA Father's Day 2005. Just after nightfall a discarded husband was driving
his three young sons back to their mother's house. On that dark country road barely five
minutes from 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. The court case that followed became Helen Garner's obsession one that would take
over her life until its final verdict. The resulting book This House of Grief is a true
crime classic and literary masterpiece which examines just what we are capable of and how
fiercely we hide it from ourselves. A W&N Essential with an introduction by Rachel Cooke
