Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Sample

  • Joe Cinque’s Consolation

  • By: Helen Garner
  • Narrated by: Helen Garner
  • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Try for £0.00
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Joe Cinque’s Consolation

By: Helen Garner
Narrated by: Helen Garner
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £25.99

Buy Now for £25.99

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
activate_samplebutton_t1

Listeners also enjoyed...

 The First Stone cover art
The First Time He Hit Her cover art
The Pottery Cottage Murders cover art
Locust Lane cover art
Bone Deep cover art
A Game of Minds cover art
This Mortal Boy cover art
A Song of Isolation cover art
After Everything You Did cover art
The Pupil cover art
Lay Your Sleeping Head cover art
Denial cover art
No Way Back cover art
The Night She Lied cover art
Summary Justice cover art
About a Son cover art

Summary

A true story of death, grief and the law from the 2019 winner of the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.

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. Some of the dinner guests—most of them students—had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.

Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is an audiobook about how and why Joe Cinque died. 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.

It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.
©2004 Helen Garner (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Murder Law
Show More Show Less

Critic reviews

"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)

"This is a work of great passion and of countervailing humanity—a book of witness." (Australian Book Review)

What listeners say about Joe Cinque’s Consolation

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    3
  • 4 Stars
    2
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    4
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    1
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.co.uk reviews

Amazon reviews
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Ama

Meticulous and moving

The way Helen Garner builds the story, describes the characters, tries to understand, interrogates herself, and shows so much compassion and insight is truly astounding. I loved this book, despite the shocking, heartbreaking, tragedy at the centre of it.

Report this

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!