Christmas Eve, 1959, Percy Summers is returning to town with his horse in need of water and a cooling down – beside the waterhole…on the Turner’s land near the majestic house called Halcyon. What he didn’t imagine was finding the Turner children and their mother very still, laying on their picnic rugs…‘as if they were sleeping’.
In the Adelaide Hills town of Tambilla, there is a buzz of excitement of Christmas preparations – deliveries, food, families fast-tracking to be near loved ones and children fractious with the humidity and heat, irritated as they comply with parental requests. But, by days end, The Turner Family Tragedy would be forever seared into the minds of the townsfolk and subject to gossip and innuendo. That hot, humid summery day changed lives forever…
London 2018, Jess Turner receives a phone call drawing her back to Sydney, to her beloved Grandmother’s bedside. It is a pivotal time, and decades of secrets rise to the surface. Can Jess pull the pieces together within the diminishing time?
An epic tale, spanning 59 years of time, Homecoming will captivate you with tension and wonder as you peel back the layers of ‘what really did happen that Christmas Eve in 1959’.
Set in quintessential rural Australia in 1959, Homecoming is pure layers of mystery to be unravelled – a classic ‘whodunnit’ style that is synonymous with Kate Morton novels.
The historic homesteads intersect past and present in a seamless way, providing a voluminous novel that will satisfy the most voracious reader.