About this Event
Author Talk: 10.30am
Followed by tea and coffeewith light refreshments.
There will be a bookseller available on the day.
Please note that while parking on site is free it is also limited and has time restrictions.
Free, untimed street parking may be available nearby in Catherine Street, Dight Street, and Christie Street.
The Golden Thread
Intricate threads from the past and the present bind together a yellow silk dress, lost gold and a missing grandmother in a twisty historical mystery from the bestselling author of The Talented Mrs Greenway.
Maitland, 1889
When eighteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects the day to unfold like any other. Breakfast with her grandmother Nell and her mother Faith, a meeting in Maitland with the ladies of the Benevolent Society, perhaps a gentle stroll along the banks of the Hunter River. But this Wednesday is different. Nell has vanished.
Concerned, Connie determines to track Nell down and follows a lead to Old Government House in Parramatta, now a boarding house. There, to her astonishment she finds her grandmother holding court.
When Nell introduces her as her companion, and not her granddaughter, to a varied cast of colourful guests, including a frail but observant old lady, a travelling salesmen, a bearded lothario, a clever articled clerk, a lively seamstress and an enigmatic housekeeper who is connected with Nell's past, Connie begins to realise that her grandmother is not who she seems. Nell is looking for something and following a thread stitched long ago, a thread that leads from some missing gold, to a silk damask dress and the attic of Government House. As the story unravels so do the secrets of the past, secrets that surface into the present to threaten not just Nell, but Connie too.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hawkesbury Central Library, 300 George Street, Windsor, Australia
AUD 5.00
