The Mushroom Tapes
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3.8 • 26 Ratings
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- $26.99
Publisher Description
The Mushroom Tapes brings together three renowned writers of true crime: Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.
For this extraordinary book, the lone wolves became a team. Garner, Hooper and Krasnostein tracked Erin Patterson’s preliminary hearings and trial, joined the media scrum at the Latrobe Valley Law Courts, slept over in Morwell and spent countless hours in fervent discussion of the case and the themes it raises: love, hate, jealousy, revenge, marriage, money, mycology and murder.
The Mushroom Tapes is a true crime book like no other, an unputdownable record of the writers’ private conversations about their impressions from inside the courtroom. They explore the gap between the certainties of the law and the messiness of reality, their own ambivalence about the true crime genre, and all that remains unknowable about Erin Patterson.
If you read one book about how Erin Patterson was convicted of triple murder make it The Mushroom Tapes.
Customer Reviews
Good
I don’t think I’d read any other book about this subject as the authors here are insightful and intelligent. I do find it annoying that the question of “are we as salacious as the Dailymail” is brought up again and again and Helen’s “I don’t know what to think” rumination is boring. Helen is the best narrator, though. The other two are dreadful. I actually think this book has been rushed, it needs more work. In saying all that, I did enjoy it.
Exploration of the human condition
An outstanding, intelligent and insightful collaboration by outstanding writers and women. Thankyou!
Loved this
I feel like I’ve read and listened to all there is about the Mushroom trial but this was by far the most interesting. Listening to three intelligent woman trying to understand the madness was the first time I felt like I can make sense of it myself.