The Ripping Tree

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Early 1800s. Thomasina Trelora is on her way to the colonies. Her fate: to be married to a clergyman she'
s never met. As the Australian coastline comes into view a storm wrecks the ship and leaves her lying on the rocks, near death. She'
s saved by an Aboriginal man who carries her to the door of a grand European house, Willowbrae.
Tom is now free to be whoever she wants to be and a whole new life opens up to her. But as she'
s drawn deeper into the intriguing life of this grand estate, she discovers that things aren'
t quite as they seem. She stumbles across a horrifying secret at the heart of this world of colonial decorum – and realises she may have exchanged one kind of prison for another.
The Ripping Tree is an intense, sharp shiver of a novel, which brings to mind such diverse influences as The Turn of the Screw, Rebecca and the film Get Out as much as it evokes The Secret River. A powerful and gripping tale of survival written in Nikki Gemmell'
s signature lyrical and evocative prose, it examines the darkness at the heart of early colonisation. Unsettling, audacious, thrilling and unputdownable.

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