It was intelligent, powerfully feministic, and quirky. When so many books are the same it was a delight to read about a female scientist who battles male prejudice, becomes a TV cooking show celebrity, finds and loses love, and produces the most delightfully different daughter who makes everything right.
It resonated with me because my books all feature women struggling against impossible odds. Especially my latest book, The Paris Assignment, shows how ordinary women were called to do extraordinary things during a time of war and what a support they were for each other.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • Meet Elizabeth Zott: a “formidable, unapologetic and inspiring” (PARADE) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel. It reminds you that change takes time and always requires heat” (The New York Times Book Review).
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, GoodReads
"A unique heroine ... you'll find yourself wishing she wasn’t fictional." —Seattle Times…
I have been a huge fan of Kate Morton since I read The Forgotten Garden.
I love stories that take place in more than one time period, with a character from the present solving a mystery from the past. Kate Morton does this again in Homecoming. Set in Australia, a young woman comes home to look after her grandmother and learns of a horrible crime involving her family back in 1959.
I have written stories featuring multiple time periods in two of my historical novels.
'Captivating . . . a sweeping yet intimate tale of motherhood and belonging, loss and longing' - Mail on Sunday
'It is a treat; it is a big deep dive, twisty turny yarn. It is fantastic' - Graham Norton, broadcaster and bestselling author of Home Stretch
From the bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton, comes a breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, told with her trademark intricacy and beauty.
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek in the grounds of a grand…
I’m a huge fan of Deborah Crombie. Her London police couple’s stories are always set in such a real and rich environment that it’s like visiting London vicariously.
I know the area around Bloomsbury well, where this murder is set. Again it’s an ensemble cast, a baffling crime, and good to see a police couple juggling family commitments as well as their jobs.
Sense of place is also paramount for me in my writing. I want to take the reader there, not tell them about it.
New York Times bestseller Deborah Crombie returns with a new novel featuring Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James as they race to solve the shocking murder of a young woman before panic spreads across London.
On a rainy November evening, trainee doctor Sasha Johnson hurries through the evening crowd in London's historic Russell Square. Out of the darkness, someone jostles her as they brush past. A moment later, Sasha stumbles, then collapses. When Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his sergeant, Doug Cullen, are called to the scene, they discover that she's been stabbed.
In this sweeping tale that takes the reader from London to Paris to Australia, Madeleine Grant falls in love with charismatic Giles Martin when she studies in Paris. They are happily married when WW2 breaks out. He sends her and their son back to London while he joins the resistance. But tragedy strikes and Madeleine volunteers to be sent to France as a courier, hoping to see Giles again. It’s a story of heartbreak and hope, bravery, and brutality, showing how ordinary women can do extraordinary things and triumph against all odds.
