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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

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

Authors Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
From left, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, authors of The Mushroom Tapes. Photograph: Eugene Hyland/The Guardian

“None of us wants to write about this. And none of us wants to not write about it.”

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.

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