In the contemporary timeline, Jess has a complex relationship with her mother, Polly, and is much closer to her grandmother, Nora, while Nora and Polly’s relationship is also similarly strained. The central themes directly concern the relationships between mothers and their children. To get to read long passages from the true-crime book that explores the historical case along with Jess was particularly well-done, and showed the public’s opinion as rendered by a single journalist alongside Jess’s mission to unravel elements of the story that weren’t included.
It beautifully renders its descriptions of the Australian locations that serve as the backdrop for the book’s events, while also using not just multiple perspectives, but different styles to capture the complex nature of the central tragedy of the book. But Homecoming feels like one of her best, in my personal opinion. Kate Morton has become one of my favorite authors for dual-timeline historical fiction, and most of her books have been winners for me. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event – a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.Īn epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital.Īt Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story.
Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generationsĪdelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery.
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