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Homecoming
9781529094046 | HB | £20.00 | 13.04.23 | Mantle
The stunning new novel from Kate Morton, the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Lake House.
Homecoming opens on Christmas Eve, 1959 in the grounds of a grand and mysterious house nestled deep in the Adelaide Hills, where a terrible discovery is made that kicks off one of the most shocking unsolved murder cases in the history of South Australia. Then, nearly sixty years later, journalist Jess is called back home from London to visit her ailing grandmother, and a secret is finally let slip. The door into the grand house’s mysterious world creaks open once again . . . We have proofs available and there will also be lovely POS on publication (see p.4) – email us to request yours! We are also reissuing Kate’s brilliant backlist titles with gorgeous new covers (see right), available in April.
READ ABOUT KATE’S INSPIRATION FOR WRITING HOMECOMING:
‘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’. 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. 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. 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’
Kate Morton
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:
‘This is Kate at the peak of her storytelling powers; Homecoming is a stunning and intricate novel that spans generations and continents. Immersive, heartbreaking and beautifully told, it explores the bonds of family, how we can hurt those we love the most with secrets left untold, and the joy and pain of finally coming home’
Maria Rejt, Publisher at Mantle
