Secrets

Judi Morison

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BUNDYI
01 October 2025

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

A gripping family saga about three generations fractured by secrets, and the three strong women who must bring them into the light.

Ruth, the widowed matriarch of a grown family, has only months to live, and a secret she’s kept for sixty years. Now she must put things right before she dies. But as she has learned, the longer something is kept hidden, the harder it is to bring out of the shadows.

With her grandson in gaol and her family fractured, Ruth must address the past, present and future. She must reveal her secret, reconcile her family, and find a way to keep her beloved homestead, Cora, in the family – and her family in Cora.

A sweeping saga spanning more than half a century, Secrets has a cast of indelible characters whose lives have been devastated by racism, trauma, addiction, incarceration, loss and shame. Yet for all that their secrets break your heart, Ruth and her family ultimately leave it stronger. This spirited, compassionate novel is a testament to the power of truth-telling and the possibility of healing.

‘An instant Australian classic.’ Hayley Scrivenor

'A powerful debut of love and loss.’ Petronella McGovern

‘Epic, compelling and moving.’ Inga Simpson

By: Judi Morison
Imprint: BUNDYI
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781761636073
ISBN 10: 1761636073
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Judi Morison has Gamilaroi and Celtic heritage and lives on Gumbaynggirr Country. She has completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, and her short fiction has been published in a number of anthologies. She is a member of the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) Indigenous Literary Project, and the editorial assistant for Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre. She led the 2021 Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers Mentoring Program at the South Coast Writers Centre. Secrets is her first novel, and in manuscript it won the 2022 Boundless Mentorship, run by Text Publishing. Judi is currently learning to speak Gamilaraay.