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Homecoming a novel [LP]

"Adelaide 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. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the h...

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Main Author: Morton, Kate, 1976- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book Large Print
Language: English
Published: New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Edition: First Harper large print edition.
Subjects:
Women journalists > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Homecoming > Fiction.
South Australia > Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Large print books.
Summary: "Adelaide 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. 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. An 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."--Page 4 of cover.
Physical Description: 841 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780063297210
0063297213
Author Notes: Kate Morton was born in South Australia in 1976. She earned a degree in speech and drama from Trinity College London, an English literature degree from the University of Queensland, and a master's degree focusing on tragedy in Victorian literature from the University of Queensland. She also completed a summer Shakespeare course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program researching contemporary novels that marry elements of gothic and mystery fiction.

She won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2007 for her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, also known as The House at Riverton. Her other books include The Distant Hours, and The Forgotten Garden, which won the Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction Book of the Year in 2009. Her books The Secret Keeper and The Lake House were New York Times bestsellers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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