Write about how it feels to go home after so long away.Description From the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Keeper comes a "moody, suspenseful page-turner" ( People, Best Book Pick) filled with mystery and spellbinding secrets. A friend had advised her, “If you go back to Australia, write about that. 2 on the hardcover fiction list, one of the main characters is a struggling journalist based in London. They decided to stay in Australia, where Morton works with a view of a garden and a hill lined with gum trees. Morton and her family still haven’t returned to London. Inspired by a grand Georgian home in the Clare Valley - one that was built as a replica of a house in England - Morton started a new book, one that grappled with the idea of belonging: “Can you have a home in two places? What does it mean when someone from one place lives somewhere else?” Instead the world that I was in, probably in contrast to the swirling of world events, felt brighter and more vivid and bolder than usual, and I noticed things that I’d stopped noticing because it’s the landscape of childhood for me. Suddenly, she said, “it felt decidedly passé. The story had been percolating for a year she’d written 20,000 words. Maybe on a long walk, or maybe while she was sitting on her new veranda, Morton realized that she’d lost touch with the “living, breathing soul” of her novel in progress, which took place in Europe during World War II. Eliot poem, about the still point of the turning world.
I kept thinking of the line from the T.S. “The world felt like it was disintegrating around us,” Morton recalled. With her husband and children, who were 16, 13 and 6 years old, she embarked on a surreal 24-hour journey from “the gray, grim late winter of London” to the “bright, parched late summer of Australia.” The family hunkered down on a remote farm in the southern part of the country. We’ll see everybody and we’ll come back in the summer when the pandemic’s over,’” Morton said. Schools went remote, flights were canceled and the gears of regular life were grinding to a halt. Morton was looking forward to spending Easter in Australia, where she grew up.
(“I’m a huge fan of Victorian bricks!” she said in a phone interview.) The story behind “Homecoming,” Kate Morton’s seventh novel, begins like so many modern tales of change and reinvention: It was March 2020, and the author of “The Clockmaker’s Daughter” and “The Lake House” was living in the Hampstead neighborhood of London, working on a new book from an office that had a view of a brick wall.
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