Black Wattle

Name: Black Wattle
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Joanne Patmore
ISBN: 9781399197434

Author: Joanne Patmore

Narrator: Gemma Lawrence, Stephanie Tobin

Unabridged: 7 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Aurora Audio Books

Published: 09/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

History does not disappear, it follows us... Saint Augustine said, 'The dead are invisible, not absent.' We carry the genes, the culture, and the stories of those who came before us. Every family's past shapes how we understand time and place. In 1924, Alice tells a terrible lie to reinvent herself, seeking refuge in the ill-fated Western Australian Group Settlement Scheme. But the past is not so easily erased. As she struggles to forget, fear silences her, and history leaves her behind. Decades later, Jarrah begins to unravel the mystery of Alice's silence. Following a trail of buried secrets from Australia to England, she pieces together a hidden past - one that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about family and identity.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deborah on May 20, 2025

Deeply moving, Black Wattle is both lyrical and poignant. Joanne has woven a powerfully immersive tapestry of pioneer resilience, hardship, identity, loss, courage, love, nostalgia, and buried secrets. Her historical fiction is rich in vivid detail, emotional resonance and historical insight. It is......more

Goodreads review by Kathleen on August 11, 2025

In the England of the early 1920’s, Alice Trapp hopes to escape her past. On the spur of the moment, she constructs a lie and marries. Lured by rosy promises of farms and freedom, she migrates with her husband to Western Australia. While Iris attempts to hide her secrets, the couple are trapped in a......more

Goodreads review by Juniper on August 04, 2025

A beautifully layered story about family, secrets, and identity, Black Wattle traces the haunting legacy of a woman’s lie across generations, as her descendant uncovers a hidden past that reshapes everything she thought she knew.......more