Coming Home

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A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read.

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I loved everything about this novel. Beautiful, lush prose. Engrossing, mysterious, multi-layered storyline. Old crumbling estate home harbouring deeply buried family secrets. Endearing characters that I got whole-heartedly invested in. Palpable atmosphere. Hidden diaries and doors. Readers can feel the heat, smell the outdoors. We know the curve of the streets, the design of the wallpaper, and what’s on the shelves and counters. A family tragedy on Christmas Eve of 1959 in Adelaide, Australia, remains mostly unsolved sixty years later. The Adelaide Hills Christmas Eve 1959 and local Percy Summers discovers something that will haunt him forever, the police are called and everyone living in the small town of Tambilla try to understand what has happened, it is so baffling, inexplicable that something like this could happen in this quiet town. This is my first Kate Morton book and it won’t be the last, wow it captured me fully from the start and it was so hard to put down, yes it is a big book but the story needed that, the story of three woman, family secrets that have been kept for sixty years, a crime or a tragedy a family lost and a long time before all the questions are answered, a must read but don’t plan on doing anything else while reading.

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.

Coming Home: An uplifting feel good novel with family secrets Coming Home: An uplifting feel good novel with family secrets

Kate Morton is one of my favorite authors and so upon receiving an ARC, there was just no way that I was going to wait for one more second to give it a read. The stunning landscape of the vast lands, red earth, the peculiar animals, the array of fauna and flora. Themes of mother-daughter relationships, postpartum depression, infertility. The only problem I had with this book was the length. Usually, I love chunky books; they give the reader lots of time to get invested in the story and characters. But with this one, at times, it felt like a slog.

Jess’s mother Polly lives in Brisbane and they are not close since Jess was bought up by Nora, Jess is here alone in Sydney and starts to investigate why her grandmother wanted to get up to the attic what she finds after internet searches is a true crime book written by Daniel Miller on an unsolved family tragedy that left a mother and three children dead and a baby missing and that these people were related to Nora, Jess and Polly and Jess is not going to give up until she gets the answers. Kate Morton is one of the few writers whose books I jump into without reading the synopsis; without wondering if it is good or not. Because I know it is going to be excellent. I didn't necessarily find all of the characters that connectable or likeable, however, I enjoyed the complex family dynamics at play. Polly was perhaps the most likeable of the three main women, however, we only start to get her viewpoint later on in the book. Whilst many of the characters were far from perfect, I think Morton depicted them well enough, that it was possible to appreciate where they were coming from, for the most part at least. Born in Colombo, Judith Dunbar spends her teenage years at boarding school, while her beloved mother and younger sister live abroad with her father. When her new friend Loveday Carey-Lewis invites Judith home for the weekend to Nancherrow, the Carey-Lewises’ beautiful estate on the Cornish coast, it is love at first sight.

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This is Morton's "Once upon a time," as she opens her tale with an almost mythic quality, which is something I especially like about her writing. Gray, Paul (1985-10-14). "History of an imagined world Always Coming Home". Books. Time . Retrieved 2015-08-15. (snippet and paywall) All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate. My thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada via Netgalley for approving my request to read an advance copy of this excellent novel. All opinions expressed are my own.Bernardo, Susan M.; Murphy, Graham J. (2006). Ursula K. Le Guin: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood. p.19. ISBN 9780313332258. Le Guin, Ursula K.; Barton, Todd; Chodos-Irvine, Margaret; Hersh, George (27 February 2001). Always Coming Home (2001ed.). ISBN 9780520227354– via Google Books. Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics is a collection of short essays by thirty-two Roman Catholic theologians, practitioners, and social scientists who gathered in Rome for a symposium on the subject in 2017. They divide into two parts: “Accompanying the Homeless” and “Working to End Homelessness”. While staying at her grandmother’s home, Jess discovers a true-crime book linking the decades-old Christmas Eve tragedy to her family. Jess begins to investigate what happened all those years ago. In Partnership with St Martin-in-the-Fields. This series of nine lectures is inspired by the words of Martin Luther during the Reformation. Distinguished speakers investigate those things in which we believe deeply – and for which we would be prepared to make a costly stand.

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Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. I love reading books set in Australia, and Morton brought the 1960s setting to life. The descriptions of the landscape are vivid, and the heat is palpable.Kroeber, Theodora (1963). The Inland Whale. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. p.10. If you like historical fiction, where there is dual timelines, family secrets, digging up the past and finding answers that will blow your mind and make you dizzy in a good way, then read this author's books. Amy and the staff at Heartland are depicted over the course of the series using several alternative treatment methods for horses. One of the most common of these is the Bach flower essences, used to treat anxiety and induce calm. Valerie "Val" Grant - The owner of Green Briar, Heartland's rival, Val is described as overbearing and snobby. Val believes in using very firm discipline- for example, whips and riding crops- on her horses; many of her students agree with her techniques. Val considers it a waste of time to develop a relationship with horses. Val schools her ponies to respond to the commands of any rider and her horses learn to "excel in one area and complete a course to win". Val, Ted and Ashley periodically attempt to shut Heartland down. Val is often an antagonist in the Heartland novels.