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Arcadia / Di Morrissey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Macmillan Australia, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 387 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781760550387 (hardback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property, Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. But when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector. Two generations later, Stella's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn. What starts as a girls' adventurous road trip becomes a hunt for the story of the past, to solve the present, and save their future.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Authors
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection MORR Checked out 15/04/2024 T00802219
Fiction Gonville Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection MORR Available T00800999
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A modern mystery born in a timeless Tasmanian forest from Australia's favourite storyteller, with new novel Before the Storm out now.In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. And when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector...Two generations later, Stella's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn.What starts as a girls' adventurous road trip becomes a hunt for the story of the past, to solve the present, and save their future...A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship.

"A modern mystery born in a timeless Tasmania forest..."--Cover.

In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property, Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, ancient forest. But when an unknown predator strikes, she is saved by an unusual protector. Two generations later, Stella's granddaughter, Sally, and her best friend, Jessica, stumble over Stella's secret life in the forest and find themselves threatened in turn. What starts as a girls' adventurous road trip becomes a hunt for the story of the past, to solve the present, and save their future.

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