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Author Booth, Sharron, author.

Title The silence of water / Sharron Booth.

Publication Info. Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3008396~S1
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Description 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary When Fan's mum, Agnes, announces the family is moving to Western Australia to take care of Agnes's father - a man they've never spoken of before now - Fan finds herself a stranger in a new town living in a home whose currents and tensions she cannot read or understand. Resentful of her mother's decision to move, Fan forms an alliance with her grandfather, Edwin Salt, a convict transported to Australia in 1861. As she listens to memories of his former life in England, Fan starts snooping around the house, riffling through Edwin's belongings in an attempt to fill the gaps in his stories. But the secrets Fan uncovers will test the family's fragile bonds forever, and force Edwin into a final reckoning with the brutality of his past.
Subject Moving, Household -- Fiction.
Families -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fiction.
Parent and child -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Ex-convicts -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Fiction.
Western Australia -- Fiction.
Western Australia.
Genre Australian fiction 21st century.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
ISBN 1760991341
9781760991340
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