![]() ![]() ![]() This out-of-character behaviour – Jess was forbidden to go up there as a child – leads her down an investigative rabbit hole that takes her 50 years into the past, and straight into the midst of a family secret: Her aunt and three cousins, all found dead by the side of a riverbank on Christmas Eve in 1959.īeing a Kate Morton novel, of course, this revelation is only just the beginning of a slow untwisting of half-truths and lies knotted together, teased apart over the course of more than 500 pages that fly by as if they’re 50. It’s classic Kate Morton: Adrift after the breakdown of her relationship in London, a fortysomething journalist named Jess is suddenly called back home to Australia when her beloved grandmother has a fall while searching for something in the attic. ![]() In fact, her newest, Homecoming, is on the bestseller list as we speak, sitting in the top spot on the Globe’s paperback fiction list. The author of seven historical fiction novels – each a deeply pleasurable blend of mystery and family entanglements, always anchored in a vivid sense of place – she’s a consistent presence on bestseller lists, including The Globe and Mail’s own fiction charts. "You've gotta read this": The books Globe staffers are loving this weekīy that logic, then, there should be untold millions of unique versions of Morton’s characters floating around in imaginations across the world. ![]()
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