{"title":"Lily Woodhouse","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-sisters-lover-paperback","title":"The Sisters' Lover - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e1950 and Flis is returning to Australia after almost twenty years away in Wellington, New Zealand. In all that time she has had no contact with her younger sister Gladdie who is missing, presumed dead. Flis is determined to find out what happened to her. Accompanied by a young man met on the voyage across the Tasman, Flis and her husband Kip travel to the deserted family farm at the foot of the Blue Mountains.Or is it deserted? Old neighbours with an adopted Aboriginal daughter, an eccentric living in the hills, a pair of half-tamed dingoes and a shifty lawyer form mysterious and uneasy company. The farmhouse holds its own secrets - a blossoming wattle grows from a hole in the floor, an ancient Scottish bed proves the recent presence of a child and the cellar is alive with relics.The thousands of reads that enjoyed Lily's first book 'Jarulan By the River' will love 'The Sisters' Lover.' Wildlife, revenge, fleeting and enduring love, old magic and new understanding combine to tell a story spun from a vanishing Australia.What the critics said about 'Jarulan By the River''A whole-hearted, red-blooded, big-bosomed, broad-shouldered sprawl.' David Hill, New Zealand Herald.'There are passions and property, sex and subterfuge. Peacocks scream. Virginities are taken. There are legitimate and illegitimate children. Races mingle. Captive koalas whimper and Rotorua sp-baths steam.' David Herkt, Sunday Star Times.'Woodhouse's novel is a big story, replete with juicy episodes and high drama in a place where nature and history bring unexpected outcomes.' Mick O'Regan, The Bungalow Herald.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68227719594207,"sku":"9781798151082","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7BwyFHlU0T9781798151082.webp?v=1792616028"},{"product_id":"jarulan-by-the-river-paperback","title":"Jarulan by the River - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A sprawling and surprising story of love, grief, loss and change that crosses generations and continents' - Kate Forsyth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatthew Fenchurch, patriarch and landowner of the northern NSW property Jarulan, lives in a grand decaying folly, invaded by ghosts and the local fauna. His wife is dead, one son has fallen on a battlefield in France, and another lives in exile as a remittance man on a marae in New Zealand. His only company are the farmhands, an old family servant and a part-time laundry maid with dreams above her station.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Matthew builds a memorial above the river for his brave lost son - and all the boys of the district who have died fighting for King and Country - his daughters and grandchildren return for the unveiling. They bring with them someone who will change life at Jarulan forever, who will fight the ghosts of the past and the claimants of the present, and ensure a dynasty, though not as anyone expected.\u003c\/p\u003eEpic, sensuous, brimming with wildlife, love, beauty, babies, ill deeds, revenge, and unions - illicit and condoned - \u003cem\u003eJarulan by the River\u003c\/em\u003e is a glorious story of passion and homecoming. A novel with the magic of Colleen McCullough, Bryce Courtenay and \u003cem\u003eCloudstreet\u003c\/em\u003e.Author's note: 'Jarulan' is an Alawa (Roper River, Northern Territory) word for fires started by raptors. These large birds have been observed for hundreds of years dropping burning sticks in grassland and then waiting for the fire to take hold to drive out prey, which they then swoop upon. This description is inspired by a passage in the 1962 book, \u003cem\u003eI, the Aboriginal\u003c\/em\u003e, by Australian journalist Douglas Lockwood and Waipuldanya (Phillip Roberts), an Alawa language group man from the Roper River country in the Northern Territory. In it, Waipuldanya recalls his own observations of a fire hawk: \u003cp\u003e'I have seen a hawk pick up a smouldering stick in its claws and drop it in a fresh patch of dry grass half a mile away, then wait with its mates for the mad exodus of scorched and frightened rodents and reptiles. When that area was burnt out, the process was repeated elsewhere. We call these fires Jarulan.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Jarulan by the River\u003c\/em\u003e is lushly detailed. The settings are varied from New Zealand to Australia and this makes for an interesting and multilayered kind of narrative. The characters are believable and well created. So too are the family dramas that will have most readers nodding in agreement. A good read for saga lovers' Christopher Bantick, Weekly Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cem\u003eJarulan by the River\u003c\/em\u003e with its mysteries, obscured parentage, black-sheep sons, inheritances, mixed-race relationships, and exotic landscapes is very definitely story-rich' David Herkt, Stuff NZ\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68340582154463,"sku":"9781460753132","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/rA7zUdXBWI9781460753132.webp?v=1793299880"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/lily-woodhouse.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}