![]() ![]() But in this book, along with a London setting – because, of course, London is the city of my heart – I’ve also brought my readers somewhere new, and that is the Adelaide Hills, one of the most beautiful, haunting and glorious parts of Australia. Homecoming will feel familiar to my regular readers, because it’s filled with secrets and mysteries, the haunting of the present by the past, by mothers, daughters, stories, storytellers, and a big old house on a hill. ![]() This book has been a home of sorts for me over the past two years – a place to disappear into: my favourite experience, as both a reader and a writer – and now, at last, it is time to invite my readers in, too. ‘I started Homecoming in the middle of 2020 having left London to be near family in South Australia, and as many things known about the world seemed to become unknown overnight, I began to think a lot about home and belonging and family, and especially what it means to ‘come home’. Morton’s debut novel, The House at Riverton, was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over a million copies in the UK and she is a bestseller around the world, having sold over sixteen million copies of her books in over thirty-two languages. ![]() Homecoming, the seventh novel from Australian author Kate Morton, is a slow but rewarding exploration of. Homecoming is Morton’s seventh novel and her first in four years following The Clockmaker’s Daughter. Historical fiction/Mariner Books/Paperback/560 pages/30.78/Books Kinokuniya 4 stars. ![]()
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