6/10/2023 0 Comments Kate morton new book homecoming![]() ![]() Polly is almost the missing person in this story as, after she was ten, Jess was brought up by Nora. ![]() It turns out that Polly knew some of the story but has been told she must never tell Jess. Just about every character has lied, either in 1959 or over the years. Just as you think one mystery has been solved, another clue appears and with it, yet another mystery. This is because the whole saga is based on lies. By the end of the book, she has to question everything she’s ever believed about Nora and about her own mother, Polly. ![]() Nothing could have prepared Jess for the discovery that the 1959 tragedy involved members of her own family whom she’s never heard of. A few muttered words make her think something is preying on Nora’s mind and, using her journalistic experience and the internet, she starts investigating. Jess flies to Sydney, to find that Nora’s condition is much worse than she expected and conversation is impossible. In 2018, Jess, living in London, receives a call telling her that her beloved grandmother Nora has had a fall and is in hospital. In 1959, in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia, a terrible tragedy befalls an entire family, shocking the small local community. ![]() It follows Kate Morton’s now familiar style of narration alternating between events in the past and the present day. I was gripped by this book from the first page to the last and read it very quickly. ![]()
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