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The secret son: Jenny Ackland.

The secret son: Jenny Ackland.
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Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
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Sagas Fiction   Taree . Available .  
F/ACK
General Fiction   Bulahdelah . Available .  
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ISBN 9781925266160
Shelf Location F/ACK Sagas
Author Ackland, Jenny
Title The secret son / Jenny Ackland.
Publication Details Sydney, NSW:
©2015 Allen & Unwin,
Collation 327 pages : 24 cm ;
General Note Debut novel.
Abstract/Summary An old woman sits waiting in a village that clings to a Turkish mountainside, where the women weaves rugs, make tea and keep blood secrets that span generations. Berna can see what others cannot, so her secrets are deeper and darker than most. It is time for her to tell her story, even though the man for whom her words are meant won't hear them. It is time for the truth to be told. Nearly a hundred years before, her father James had arrived at the village, gravely ill, rescued from the abandoned trenches of Gallipoli by a Turkish boy whose life he had earlier spared. James made his life there, never returning to Australia and never realising that his own father was indeed the near-mythical bushranger that the gossips had hinted at when he'd been a boy growing up in Beechworth. Now, as Berna waits, a young man from Melbourne approaches to visit his parents' villiage, against the vehement opposition of his cursed, tight-lipped grandfather. What is the astonishing story behind the dark deeds that connect the two men, unknown to each other and living almost a century apart?
Subject Sagas -- Fiction
Australian authors -- Fiction
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