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When Mary accepts a temporary position as housekeeper at a Downe, a famous Merino stud, she expects to find a grand and gracious homestead. What she finds instead is a shabby and neglected house occupied by a handsome but taciturn and silent father and son, and the mysterious Clio - the wife and mother of whom they never speak and who never leaves her room.
While Mary endeavors to turn the house back into a ho ...more
When Mary accepts a temporary position as housekeeper at a Downe, a famous Merino stud, she expects to find a grand and gracious homestead. What she finds instead is a shabby and neglected house occupied by a handsome but taciturn and silent father and son, and the mysterious Clio - the wife and mother of whom they never speak and who never leaves her room.
While Mary endeavors to turn the house back into a ho ...more
Mary accepts a position as the temporary housekeeper at Downe, a merino stud, set in the Western Australia bush. Instead of the gracious homestead she is expecting, Downe is a home of secrets and shadows.
A Darker Music is a haunting and lyrical novel of quiet tragedy. The writing is elegant and evocative, the pace simmers with quiet anxiety and dread. Morton incorporates the lifestyle and minutae of the farm operations and creates a sense of place with lush descriptions of the station and its s ...more
A Darker Music is a haunting and lyrical novel of quiet tragedy. The writing is elegant and evocative, the pace simmers with quiet anxiety and dread. Morton incorporates the lifestyle and minutae of the farm operations and creates a sense of place with lush descriptions of the station and its s ...more
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