The Secret Son

Jenny Ackland

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Allen & Unwin
26 August 2015

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

An old woman sits waiting in a village that clings to a Turkish mountainside, where the women weave 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 come to the village on the back of a donkey, 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' village, 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?

The Secret Son is a remarkable debut, a dazzlingly original, audacious and exhilarating novel. At once joyous and haunting, it is a moving meditation on love, honour and belonging, as well as a story about the strength of women and what it means to be a good man...

By: Jenny Ackland
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 446g
ISBN: 9781925266160
ISBN 10: 1925266168
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 August 2015
Recommended Age: From
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jenny Ackland spent years living in Turkey. The novel is infused with her love for that country and its people. She is a teacher and writer who now lives with her family in East St Kilda. Jenny had short fiction published in RMIT's Visible Ink anthology and in the Big Issue fiction issue (2013). In 2012 she had two stories short-listed in the UK's Bridport Prize, an essay long-listed in the inaugural Voiceless Prize, and her novel was short-listed (subsequently withdrawn) in the HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development.

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The Secret Son

Jenny Ackland

$36.99

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