The House on the Hill

✍ Scribed by Duncan, Susan

• Book ID: 109925247
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Series: Memoirs 3
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek.
The third memoir from the author of bestsellers Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek.
In The House on the Hill, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus - the emotional freedom and moral clarity to admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, the find ways to embrace them.
This, in turn, unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 95-year-old mother with the dreadful secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. It is the not-knowing, she says, that does untold damage.
Interwoven with stories from the land - building a sustainable eco-house on the mid-coast of New South Wales with her engineer husband, Bob, and grappling with white-eyed...