Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 2928377156367 Number of pages: 640 Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm You may also be interested in. It explores the power of motherhood, the corrosive effects of tightly held secrets, and the healing nature of truth. And for a journalist without a story, a cold case might be the best distraction she can find.Īn epic novel that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, and how we protect the lies we tell. It is only when Jess skims through the book that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous crime - a crime that has never been resolved satisfactorily. In Stella's bedroom, she discovers a true crime book, chronicling the police investigation into a long-buried tragedy: the Turner Family Tragedy of Christmas Eve, 1959. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Stella, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital.Īt a loose end in Stella's house, Jess does some digging of her own. Having lived and worked in London for almost twenty years, she now finds herself laid off from her full-time job and struggling to make ends meet. Sixty years later, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. A police investigation is called and the small town of Tumbeela becomes embroiled in one of the most shocking and perplexing murder cases in the history of South Australia. When 89-year-old Noras health takes an unexpected turn for the worse, Jess boards the first plane out of London, her home of twenty years, to be by her grandmothers bedside in Sydney. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand and mysterious mansion, a local delivery man makes a terrible discovery. A gripping mystery set between Australia and London, Homecoming, the new novel by Kate Morton, is published in hardback in April 2023.

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