An Isolated Incident

An interesting liberal feminist social commentary which I personally think made some excellent points about grief, but lacked depth in its response to male violence. It is a character-driven story, and while I didn't particularly like any of the characters, it is well written and engaging. It demonstrates very clearly how as a society we love to romanticise and exploit for our own gain the brutal, public murders; while women are killed every week by someone they know and those ones barely get a mention. In the time since the book was written, there have been hundreds of women and children and men killed by someone known to them in Australia, but most people only remember those who died randomly, forever etched in our minds by the media and social discourse as being the real victims here.