'When all that you know comes crashing down, do you run? Or face the truth?
'Ruby Cardel has the semblance of a normal life – a loving boyfriend, a fulfilling career – but in one terrible moment, her life unravels. The discovery that the death of her sister, Jamie, was not an accident makes her question all she’s known about herself and her past.
'Travelling back home to Lyrebird Hill, Ruby begins to remember the year that has been forever blocked in her memory . . . Snatches of her childhood with beautiful Jamie, and Ruby’s only friendship with the boy from the next property, a troubled foster kid.' (Publication summary)
'She started her working life as a graphic artist. But novelist Anna Romer was always mesmerised by the power of words. She wrote in secret, and eventually summoned up the courage to write her first novel, Thornwood House. Now on the brink of publishing her second novel, Lyrebird Hill, Anna tells us about the lure of secrets in novels, overcoming
self-doubt – and wrangling snakes.' (18)
'She started her working life as a graphic artist. But novelist Anna Romer was always mesmerised by the power of words. She wrote in secret, and eventually summoned up the courage to write her first novel, Thornwood House. Now on the brink of publishing her second novel, Lyrebird Hill, Anna tells us about the lure of secrets in novels, overcoming
self-doubt – and wrangling snakes.' (18)
