Neal Drinnan - The Devil's Grip
Wed, 18 Sept
|Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead
Neal Drinnan's unforgettable 'The Devil’s Grip' explores the power of shame, reputation and conflicts of gender, sexuality and class. Neal is in-conversation with Stephanie Wood.
Time & Location
18 Sept 2019, 6:30 pm
Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia
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About The Event
Neal Drinnan's unforgettable The Devil’s Grip explores the power of shame, reputation and conflicts of gender, sexuality and class.
Neal is in-conversation with Stephanie Wood, author of Fake.
About the Book
The dark side of Australian rural life has always inspired novelists but The Devil’s Grip proves that truth is far stranger and more disturbing than fiction. It unravels the secrets and lies that led to the seemingly motiveless 1992 murders of Darcy Wettenhall, his son Guy, and pillar of the sheep breeding establishment, Janet Wettenhall. In writing this book, Drinnan enlisted the help of Bob Perry, Darcy Wettenhall’s secret lover for a decade prior to his murder.
From the bucolic majesty, privilege and snobbery of the Western District’s prized pastoral lands and dynasties to the bleak, loveless underworld of orphanages, rodeo stables and homeless shelters, The Devil’s Grip is a courageous and thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of…
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