Taboo

From Kim Scott, two-times winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, comes a work charged with ambition and poetry, in equal parts brutal, mysterious and idealistic, about a young woman cast into a drama that has been playing for over two hundred years ... Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural South-West of Western Australia, and tells the story of a group of Noongar people who revisit, for the first time in many decades, a taboo place: the site of a massacre that followed the assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of a white man who had stolen a black woman. They come at the invitation of Dan Horton, the elderly owner of the farm on which the massacres unfolded. He hopes that by hosting the group he will satisfy his wife's dying wishes and cleanse some moral stain from the ground on which he and his family have lived for generations. But the sins of the past will not be so easily expunged. We walk with the ragtag... A Welcome New Talent Caroline Baum Interior Designer Christina Clemente Is Caught Off Guard By An Intense Affair With Her Charismatic Client, Jackson Plummer. He Quickly Becomes The Cure To Christina's Loneliness And A Surrogate Father To Her Young Daughter Bianca. When Jackson Suggests Moving To A Rundown Farm In The Mountains, Christina Soon Forgets Her Initial Hesitation And Absorbs Herself In Restoring The Rambling Century-old House, Bartholemews Run, Becoming Obsessed With Solving Its Mysterious History. But While Living On The Isolated Farm, Her Once Effervescent Child Transforms Into A Quiet Sullen Teenager And Christina Increasingly Struggles To Connect With Her. Because Bianca Has A Secret. And The Monstrous Truth Threatens To Destroy Them All. Praise For The Fence Jaffé Does For Neighbourly Disputes What Liane Moriarty Did For Schoolyard Scandals In Big Little Lies...the Fence Is Guaranteed To Resonate Australian Women's Weekly