Homecoming by Kate Morton.
Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada for gifted copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
Book Synopsis
The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of The Clockmaker’s Daughter, a sweeping saga that begins with a shocking crime that echoes across continents and generations.
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959
At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia.
Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for nearly two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother, Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in hospital.
At Nora’s house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event—a murder mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.
An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today.
My Review
Homecoming is told in two alternating timelines and switches back and forth between 1959 which is written and titled as a prologue and then in 2018 with these sections titled with the date.
This book is a family generational saga, a mystery, and is a slow burn read that is very character focused. This book seemed to move along at a slower pace for the first 3/4 of the book and then the prologue sections of the book seemed to pick up the pace. I feel that of the two timelines of the story, the sections set in 2018 were the parts I enjoyed the most, especially in the first half of the book, but then when the prologue sections set in 1959 shifted in feel and pace, I found I enjoyed those sections a bit more.
Homecoming is the first book I have read by Kate Morton and if you enjoy a bit of a slower paced read with a mystery that is slower to reveal itself until later in the reading and that is very character focused, then you will enjoy this book. Overall, an enjoyable and mysterious novel, if a tad bit long.
My Rating: 4/5
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