Homecoming by Kate Morton

Homecoming by Kate Morton

The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping work of historical fiction that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations

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.

Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. 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.

At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event - a long-buried family secret and a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.

A multi-generational saga, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today. 

Kate Morton was born in Queensland, Australia's northwestern mountains. She holds degrees in dramatic art and English literature and is a doctorate candidate at the University of Queensland. In Brisbane, he lives with his wife and children. His first novel, La Casa de Riverton, was a huge success in 38 countries, reaching number one in many of them and selling over two million copies around the world. With sales in excess of four million copies, The Forgotten Garden was a complete consolidation of this eminent author, and he received widespread acclaim from critics and readers.

In the same way, his third work, Las horas distantes, became an instant best seller. The sales of Kate Morton's works are estimated to be in the tens of millions of copies around the world.