Lyn Loates

Helen Mainyard was eight years old when her father suddenly uprooted the family from their home in Christchurch and settled them in Melbourne. Helen had always believed the move was her father’s response to a vicious murder that happened in the city. But when she is twenty-one the real reason for the family’s departure declares itself and causes Helen to re-visit scenes from her childhood, in particular a dark, remembered homestead called Amberley which, together with its climbing tree, had once held the inquisitive girl in its thrall. The remembered murder and the remembered house together lead Helen to unearth a trail of human transgressions.

Lyn Loates has come to fiction writing following a successful career in journalism in Britain and New Zealand.

‘A captivating and original piece of writing.’
NZ Listener

‘Lyn Loates has written a cracker of a tale.’
North & South

978-1-877378-29-4
$34.99
230 x 152mm, 296pp, paperback

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