Homecoming
Kate Morton
Reviewed by Helen
This is my first Kate Morton book and it won’t be the last, wow it captured me fully from the start and it was so hard to put down, yes it is a big book but the story needed that, the story of three woman, family secrets that have been kept for sixty years, a crime or a tragedy a family lost and a long time before all the questions are answered, a must read but don’t plan on doing anything else while reading.
The Adelaide Hills Christmas Eve 1959 and local Percy Summers discovers something that will haunt him forever, the police are called and everyone living in the small town of Tambilla try to understand what has happened, it is so baffling, inexplicable that something like this could happen in this quiet town.
London 2018 and Jess has been living and working as a journalist for twenty years, but is now unemployed and single when she gets a call to say that her beloved grandmother Nora has had a fall in her house in Vaucluse and that it might be a good idea if she returns home, Nora was on her way to the attic, a place that Jess had been told never to go to when she was a little girl growing up in this house, why was Nora on her way to the attic?
Jess’s mother Polly lives in Brisbane and they are not close since Jess was bought up by Nora, Jess is here alone in Sydney and starts to investigate why her grandmother wanted to get up to the attic what she finds after internet searches is a true crime book written by Daniel Miller on an unsolved family tragedy that left a mother and three children dead and a baby missing and that these people were related to Nora, Jess and Polly and Jess is not going to give up until she gets the answers.
A compelling story that will open family secrets and not just in the Turner family, it looks into what people will do to protect the people you love, it is such a fabulous story so well told so articulate, the characters are fabulous, the emotions are running through the pages, it made me feel all of the emotions as I read this book, I got so invested in this one it was hard to let go when I needed to put it down, and it is one that I will not forget.
I do highly recommend this one, it is one not to be missed if you love a good mystery, with strong characters and one that is told so well.
The Adelaide Hills Christmas Eve 1959 and local Percy Summers discovers something that will haunt him forever, the police are called and everyone living in the small town of Tambilla try to understand what has happened, it is so baffling, inexplicable that something like this could happen in this quiet town.
London 2018 and Jess has been living and working as a journalist for twenty years, but is now unemployed and single when she gets a call to say that her beloved grandmother Nora has had a fall in her house in Vaucluse and that it might be a good idea if she returns home, Nora was on her way to the attic, a place that Jess had been told never to go to when she was a little girl growing up in this house, why was Nora on her way to the attic?
Jess’s mother Polly lives in Brisbane and they are not close since Jess was bought up by Nora, Jess is here alone in Sydney and starts to investigate why her grandmother wanted to get up to the attic what she finds after internet searches is a true crime book written by Daniel Miller on an unsolved family tragedy that left a mother and three children dead and a baby missing and that these people were related to Nora, Jess and Polly and Jess is not going to give up until she gets the answers.
A compelling story that will open family secrets and not just in the Turner family, it looks into what people will do to protect the people you love, it is such a fabulous story so well told so articulate, the characters are fabulous, the emotions are running through the pages, it made me feel all of the emotions as I read this book, I got so invested in this one it was hard to let go when I needed to put it down, and it is one that I will not forget.
I do highly recommend this one, it is one not to be missed if you love a good mystery, with strong characters and one that is told so well.
5 stars
April 4, 2023 by Allen & Unwin
