Book Review: Homecoming by Kate Morton
Homecoming is classic Kate Morton, with dual timelines competing for my love and attention. Morton crafts her stories in such a way that I don’t have time to properly fret over a cliffhanger in one timeline because I’m getting pulled back into the equally engaging storyline in the other. We begin in the past, where we’re briefly introduced to members of the Turner family on New Year’s Day 1959 before skipping ahead to Christmas Eve of the same year, when a local man comes upon the family in a tragic and haunting tableau that forms the mystery at the heart of the story. Fast-forward 60 years to London, where we meet a young woman named Jess. She’s struggling personally and professionally and seems to be at a bit of a cross-roads in her life. When Jess receives a call that her beloved grandmother has been hospitalized, she returns home to Australia and soon finds herself unexpectedly discovering family secrets. Themes of motherhood, explored throughout the story, as well as th...
