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DescriptionSex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport.
*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014*
'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two players... And so, as police were confiscating bed sheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.' Author descriptionAnna Krien is the author of Into the Woods: The Battle for Tasmania's Forests and Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals. |