Where the river runs / Fleur McDonald.

By: McDonald, Fleur [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760633141; 1760633143Subject(s): Suspense fiction | Thriller / suspense | Australian fiction | Families | Family secrets | Farm life | Homecoming | Pianists | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Women pianists -- Fiction | Detectives -- Fiction | Country life -- Australia -- Fiction | Pianists -- Fiction | Homecoming -- Fiction | Farm life -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction | Farm life -- Australia -- Fiction | Farming -- Australia -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Australian stories -- Adult fiction -- Print | Australian fiction | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction | Suspense fiction | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Ten years ago, thirty-year-old Chelsea Taylor left the small country town of Barker and her family's property to rise to the top as a concert pianist. With talent, ambition and a determination to show them all at home, Chelsea thought she had it made. Yet here she was, back in Barker, with her four-year-old daughter, Aria, readying herself to face her father, Tom. The father who'd shouted down the phone ten years ago never to come home again. With an uneasy truce developing, Chelsea and Aria settle into the rhythm of life on the land with Tom and Cal, the farmhand, who seems already to have judged Chelsea badly. Until a shocking discovery is made on the riverbed and Detective Dave Burrows, the local copper, has to tear back generations of family stories to reveal the secrets of the past. Chelsea just wants a relationship with her dad but will he ever want that too? Or will his memory lapses mean they'll never get that opportunity?
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"As Chelsea mends family ties, a generation's old secret lies waiting..." -- Cover.

Ten years ago, thirty-year-old Chelsea Taylor left the small country town of Barker and her family's property to rise to the top as a concert pianist. With talent, ambition and a determination to show them all at home, Chelsea thought she had it made. Yet here she was, back in Barker, with her four-year-old daughter, Aria, readying herself to face her father, Tom. The father who'd shouted down the phone ten years ago never to come home again. With an uneasy truce developing, Chelsea and Aria settle into the rhythm of life on the land with Tom and Cal, the farmhand, who seems already to have judged Chelsea badly. Until a shocking discovery is made on the riverbed and Detective Dave Burrows, the local copper, has to tear back generations of family stories to reveal the secrets of the past. Chelsea just wants a relationship with her dad but will he ever want that too? Or will his memory lapses mean they'll never get that opportunity?

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