I started writing this novel when I was 17 - geez, that's a touch over 60 years ago! - where DOES the time go? If you're curious, check "The Evolution Of A Novel" in the 2016 Blogs down there on the left.
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newspaper article appears in a state daily, concerning a skeleton that has been
washed downstream during local floods. This sets off events that become the
closing chapter to a story that began twenty-five years earlier, when Robbie
Sutch was nineteen and on the run from responsibilities he can’t handle.
Exhausted, Robbie strays into Pritchard’s Glen, an enclosed valley with
only one road in, and peopled by descendants of Welsh agricultural workers
brought in during colonial days by Owen Pritchard ‘the elder’.
When Robbie arrives, the third Owen Pritchard, and his attractive young
wife, head a successful fruit cannery business that is the only employer, but
with a feudal ‘Squire’ and tied-cottage social structure. Owen owns the best of
the valley, but his aged aunt holds an isolated section at the base of the
ranges, run by her and her great-grandaughter Bronwyn, but a property Owen
wants.
Robbie takes up casual work on her farm as a temporary sanctuary, but
when Bronwyn falls for him, the old lady sees an opportunity to set up
Bronwyn’s future, and put her affairs in order before it’s too late, as the old
lady harbours a secret, concerning the empty graves of her two sons and a large
and enigmatic building that is sealed and mostly hidden at the back of the
property.
But Robbie’s selfish and callow nature soon rises to the surface and
becomes not only his own undoing, but triggers a chain reaction that is
catastrophic for Pritchards Glen and its people. It will be twenty-five years
before Rob, still not yet a man in his own eyes, returns in an attempt to put
his ghosts to rest.
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