Helen Garner has praised Dua Lipa as a \u201cserious and sensitive\u201d interviewer after the British superstar added Garner\u2019s nonfiction book This House of Grief to her monthly book club.<\/p>\n
Garner\u2019s 2014 courtroom drama<\/a> will be the first Australian inclusion on the popular list, taking the Melbourne author\u2019s work to the singer\u2019s growing global audience.<\/p>\n Lipa said Garner\u2019s book offered a \u201csharp and forensic analysis of the human condition,\u201d announcing the selection in an Instagram post.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough Helen has been writing for almost 50 years, her work is new to me and it\u2019s a thrilling discovery,\u201d Lipa wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cShe\u2019s one of the most fascinating writers I have come across in recent years, and I\u2019m sure that, like me, you\u2019ll find yourself diving into her back catalogue.\u201d<\/p>\n Garner will join 23 high-profile authors championed by Lipa after the August publication of the interview, which the author described as \u201cfruitful\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI found her an impressive person, serious and sensitive and deeply interested in the difficult questions that the book raises,\u201d Garner said.<\/p>\n Allow Instagram content?<\/p>\n This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click ‘Allow and continue’.<\/p>\n Lipa foreshadowed Garner\u2019s addition ahead of her interview series\u2019 move to streaming on Spotify in June.<\/p>\n \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be my book pile without at least one harrowing story,\u201d Lipa said at the time.<\/p>\n Garner won international<\/a> acclaim for This House of Grief, a retelling of the trial of Victorian man Robert Farquharson over the murder of his three sons. Farquharson drove his three children<\/a> into a dam in south-western Victoria in 2005.<\/p>\n The book received special mention in Garner\u2019s 2016 win of the US$150,000 (A$207,633) Windham Campbell literary prize. The author first thought the award was hoax after an email in her junk folder from someone at Yale University who had \u201cgood news\u201d and wanted her phone number, she said at the time<\/a>.<\/p>\n