Kate Morton
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Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching day, on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery, 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, in London, a phone call summons Jess back to Sydney: her beloved grandmother Nora has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital. At Nora's...
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English
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Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.