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Homecoming

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

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Overview

Published in 2023, Homecoming is Kate Morton’s seventh novel. Her first novel, The House at Riverton, was published in 2006 and became an immediate bestseller. Set in the Australian landscape, Morton’s home, her novels have become known for their compelling mysteries and unpredictable plot twists. However, the author’s works are also praised for their character-driven focus, for they frequently explore deep family relationships and complex dynamics, featuring plots that often revolve around dark secrets in the family’s past.

This study guide refers to the eBook edition of the novel, which was published in 2023 by Mariner Books.

Content Warning: The source material features depictions of child loss, death by suicide, gaslighting, and postpartum depression.

Plot Summary

Alternating between two different timelines, 1959 and 2018, Homecoming gradually reveals the true events behind the Turner Tragedy, an unsolved mystery in which Percy Summers finds Isabel Turner and her children dead after a picnic, with no discernable cause of death. In 1959, lacking the means to find any other evidence, the police and the local community of Tambilla settle on the theory that Isabel poisoned her children and herself. Over time and retelling, this story becomes the accepted truth, but the fate of Isabel’s baby, Thea, remains a mystery, for she was absent from the crime scene and was never found.

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