The Secrets of the Huon Wren [electronic resource]
Claire van Ryn2023
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Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets
Nora, a nursing home resident with dementia and a doll cradled lovingly in her
arms. Bit by bit, Nora reveals details about her younger life as a spirited
teenage girl living beneath the Great Western Tiers in Tasmania's heartland, of
stitching linings into coffins, of her illicit romance with a charming
Polish-German migrant, and of a family torn apart by heartbreak.
As the two women form an unlikely friendship, Allira becomes helplessly drawn
into the old woman's story. When Allira opens up to Nora about her own recent
tragedy, the secrets embedded in the story of a carved Huon pine wren become the
key to a life-changing discovery from the past. It is a revelation that finally
fills in the missing pieces of Nora's history and has the power to set them both
free.
Set among the picturesque mountain ranges of Tasmania's Central Highlands, and
moving between the 1950s and the present day, The Secret...
Main title:
The Secrets of the Huon Wren [electronic resource] / Claire van Ryn
Author:
Claire van Ryn, Author
Imprint:
Australia : Penguin eBooks, 2023
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781761049286
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
448367
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |