Father’s Day, 2005. Just after nightfall, a father drove his three young sons back to their mother, his ex-wife.
On that dark country road, 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 the children drowned.
Helen Garner charts the court case that followed, examining just what we are capable of and how fiercely we hide it from ourselves.



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