‘Erin Patterson remains mysterious to me’: Helen Garner, Sarah Krasnostein and Chloe Hooper on the mushroom murders

<p>Three of Australia’s most acclaimed writers have teamed up to write The Mushroom Tapes, about the weeks they spent at the triple-murder trial, picking apart lies, media ethics and evil</p><p>“None of us wants to write about this. And none of us wants to <em>not</em> write about it.”</p><p>The profound inner conflict of the three narrators begins on page two of The Mushroom Tapes and never quite resolves, lingering as an ethical tension that colours almost every page.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/08/mushroom-murders-erin-patterson-book-helen-garner-sarah-krasnostein-chloe-hooper-interview">Continue reading...</a>