{"id":33984,"date":"2025-07-31T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33984\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:12:08","slug":"helen-garner-asked-grandsons-who-dua-lipa-was-before-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33984\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Garner asked grandsons who Dua Lipa was before interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an unexpectedly huge win for Australian literature, pop superstar Dua Lipa has picked Helen Garner\u2019s This House of Grief for her monthly book club, and has an upcoming interview with the literary icon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The selection was announced yesterday, with Dua Lipa explaining Garner\u2019s book \u2014 the devastating telling of the trial of Robert Farquharson, who drove his car into a dam, killing his three young sons, in 2005 \u2014 is \u201cnot simply a courtroom drama but a sharp and forensic analysis of the human condition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DMudjqXsa9B\/?img_index=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an unexpectedly huge win for Australian literature, pop superstar Dua Lipa has picked Helen Garner\u2019s This House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,2331,31178,134,31179,5584],"class_list":{"0":"post-33984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-culture","12":"tag-dua-lipa","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-helen-garner","15":"tag-literature"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}