Carolyn’ Harris’s book is a classic page-turner set in a fictional place called Weatherwood set on the beautiful Bathurst Plains in Australia that’ll let you escape from reality.
The story focuses on the events that took place with Sally and Hamish soon after they settled. Their strange and unexplained enchantment towards the haunting property and the peace they eventually find.
The settlement of Australia was hard won and the life the settlers had was difficult, to say the least. Once over the mountains they were far away from any help and had to rely on themselves and the people who had settled nearby. Although the story is fiction it is all based on historical fact telling the settlement of Australia in its first years as people moved out from Sydney after a way over the Blue Mountains was discovered. It would be wrong to call it a fictional setting as the Bathurst Plains are very real and the settlements out there are too. In the words of Carolyn Harris, the author of Weatherwood, “The trip out to Australia from England back then is based on fact and the happenings in Sydney are also a fact. The settlements that developed on the other side of the mountains, what happened there and the events are all real. Including the war with the indigenous people, the fires and the floods are facts. The gold rush is also a fact. It occurred not far from Bathurst – as is the perilous journey off the mountains onto the plains”.
The introduction to the book reads “In 1813, two women were sent as convicts to Australia. Their life on the ship Jocasta toughened them for the life to come. On arrival, each was employed for their terms of conviction before they met again. They each married and together began the journey across the Blue Mountains to settle on the Bathurst plains. Their lives and hardships before their mysterious disappearance began the long chain of events that wouldn’t cease for two hundred years.
In 2007, Sally and Hamish sought a change and a challenge. They found a four-hundred-acre property for sale on the other side of the Blue Mountains called Weatherwood. The estate agent could tell them very little except the owner required they supply the names of their parents and grandparents and where they were born, but he couldn’t tell them why. What they couldn’t explain was why they were irresistibly drawn to Weatherwood. They bought it sight unseen.
It was mad and they knew it. They had no idea what Weatherwood was or what they would find when they got there. Nevertheless, with their new 4×4 and their cat, Purrfec, they set out from Sydney on an adventure that would take them deep into the heart of Weatherwood and its many mysteries”. It can be concluded as a book one can read with a detective hat on.
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