The Secrets of the Huon Wren / Claire Van Ryn
- Bib ID:
- 10001277
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Van Ryn, Claire, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Docklands, Victoria] : Michael Joseph/Penguin Random House Australia, 2023
- ©2023
- 1 online resource (336 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 1.1MB
- ISBN:
- 9781761049286
- Summary:
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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." -- first unnumbered page.
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- General.
- Subject:
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- Australian fiction
- Dementia -- Patients -- Fiction
- Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
- Life change events -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Women journalists -- Fiction
- Fiction - General
- Fiction - Historical
- Historical fiction
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Modern & contemporary fiction
- Tasmania -- Fiction
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Penguin eBooks
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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