Adelaide Hills Christmas Eve 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day beside a creekin 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 a phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney where her beloved grandmother Nora has suffered a fall and been raced to the hospital. At Nora's house Jess discovers a true-crime bookchronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through the pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this once-infamous murder a mystery that has never been resolved satisfactorily. An epic novel 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 a beguiling and immensely satisfying novel from one of the finest writers working today.
