A few years ago in Australia, a woman called Erin Patterson killed three of her in-laws by inviting them to lunch and serving them beef Wellington containing death cap mushrooms. Her murder trial was held last year in country Victoria and attracted widespread media attention. Three Australian writers – Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein – attended the trial. This absorbing book is made of edited transcripts of their conversations about the details of the case and their day-to-day thoughts as the trial progressed.
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