Thornwood House
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (502 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 148626347X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A good book that could have been better Rebecca White This is a first novel from Anna Romer and not to be negative - but it shows. Her editors have a lot to answer for!Audrey is the story's main character, her daughter Bronwyn and she inherit an old rural homestead called "Thornwood House" in Queensland from Bronwyns estranged (and now dead) father Tony Jarman. On a whim they leave Melbourne . "An amazing debut!" according to Jenn J McLeod. Any story about an old house is high on my reading list! This is an amazing debut novel. I read it in two days because it was impossible to put down. i guess that is why it is on the Aussie 50 Books You Can't Put Down list! I am so captivated by the setting and the sensory journey Anna's story took me on that I am heading to QLD to visit t. The story gets buried in lengthy poetic detailed descriptions. Confusing with back and forth first person narration. Only the narrator, Eliose Oxer, got me to chapter 21 before I finally just gave up, not caring about how the mystery ended. I simply couldn't take one more laboriously detailed explanation ofanything else!!! This book is told in first person, but by different alternating people via the main character who finds letters that are written to o
When she learns about other unexplained deaths in recent yearsone of them a young woman with injuries echoing those of the first victimshe begins to suspect that the killer is still very much alive.And now Audrey, thanks to her need to uncover the past, has provided him with good reason to want to kill again.. An enthralling, haunting tale of obsession, love, and courage.When Audrey Kepler inherits an abandoned homestead in rural Queensland, she jumps at the chance to escape her loveless existence in the city and make a fresh start.In a dusty back room of the old house, she discovers the crumbling photo of a handsome World War II medicSamuel Riordan, the homestead's former occupantand soon finds herself becoming obsessed with him.B
On returning home to Australia, she began weaving stories of her own and was quickly hooked. A visit to her sister in north Queensland inspired her first novel, "Thornwood House", a story that reflects her fascination with old diaries and letters, dark family secrets, rambling old houses, the persistence of the past, and our unique Australian landscape. About the Author Anna Romer spent her wayward youth travelling the globe, working as a graphic artist while she soaked up local histories and folklore from the Australian outback, then Asia, Europe, and America. . Anna lives on a remote bush property, where she's working
. Anna Romer spent her wayward youth travelling the globe, working as a graphic artist while she soaked up local histories and folklore from the Australian outback, then Asia, Europe, and America. A visit to her sister in north Queensland inspired her first novel, "Thornwood House", a story that reflects her fascination with