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Author Watkinson, Jillian, 1957-

Title The hanging tree / Jillian Watkinson
Published St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2004

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 W'PONDS  827.03 W3363 A6/H  AVAILABLE
Description 323 pages ; 20 cm
Summary When Bill Masters decides to write a family history, a story to pass on to his children, he finds a letter dated New Year's Eve, 1976, six months before he was born. Through the letter, Bill discovers stories of his uncles, Wilson and Ben, who shared the love of one woman, and uncovers a complex drama of tragedy and triumph
Notes "Set against a backdrop of social change in twentieth-century Australia, [it] revisits people and places from [the author's]... novel, The Architect" -- back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Family secrets -- Fiction.
War stories, Australian.
Genealogy -- Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Families -- History -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
SUBJECT Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
Genre/Form Sagas.
War fiction.
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
LC no. 2006373218
ISBN 0702234753 paperback