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A century of family secrets starts to unravel when Benedict Waters is summoned to an audience with an old friend of his mother. He is seduced by her storytelling and it takes time and an astonishing revelation before he realises that it is his own family he has been hearing about, his own life that is being undone.From the Blue Mountains to the Hawkesbury and from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales, The Fern Tattootakes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through several generations of three families. We meet a range of extraordinary characters including a bigamist bishop, a librarian tattooed from neck to knee, a young girl who kills her best friend in a tragic shooting accident and a pair of lovers who live each other's lives for years after they have separated. As with all families, there are lost loves, tragic passions and unspoken (sometimes unspeakable) histories.… (más)
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Yes, man is broad, too broad indeed, I'd have him narrower.
~ Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamazov: The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There should be a frontspiece, 'Noon in the Australian Forest', though not the noon of the Australian poets, not the noon of Charles Harpur or Henry Kendall. ~ PROEM
In almost the beginning there was the lighthouse - the lighthouse, and the houses beside it. ~ Chapter I
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For the first time, just now, unaided, he has picked out the Southern Cross, Aldebaran, Canopus, and the great belt of Orion, that huge man.
A century of family secrets starts to unravel when Benedict Waters is summoned to an audience with an old friend of his mother. He is seduced by her storytelling and it takes time and an astonishing revelation before he realises that it is his own family he has been hearing about, his own life that is being undone.From the Blue Mountains to the Hawkesbury and from Sydney to the south coast of New South Wales, The Fern Tattootakes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through several generations of three families. We meet a range of extraordinary characters including a bigamist bishop, a librarian tattooed from neck to knee, a young girl who kills her best friend in a tragic shooting accident and a pair of lovers who live each other's lives for years after they have separated. As with all families, there are lost loves, tragic passions and unspoken (sometimes unspeakable) histories.
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