I listened to the audiobook of Homecoming by one of my favourite authors Kate Morton (see my blogs on Kate Morton, The Clockmaker’s Daughter and The Lake House) in April and was utterly captivated with it from start to finish.

It is a dual timeline tale set in Australia in 1959 and 1918, centring on the life of Jess Turner-Bridges and her grandmother, and begins when Jess is summoned back to Australia from London (where she’s been living) before Christmas with the news that her grandmother, Nora, who raised her, is dying in hospital after a fall.

As Jess settles into her childhood home, visiting Nora in hospital, she begins to uncover family secrets in an attempt to understand Nora’s garbled words as she slips in and out of consciousness and to discover why Nora was trying to get into the attic when she fell.

This leads her back to the 1950s and the story of the Turner family tragedy, where a mother and her children were found dead at a Christmas picnic, which Jess begins to realise is connected to her own family story.

This is beautifully written, beautifully read on Audible,  and was completely captivating. I really didn’t want to put in down and leave the world it so clearly conjured up. An absolute must-read and perfect for summer.