num_pages: 371
description: Poets had always lived there the locals claimed. It was as if the house called to its own... When Sadie inherits Poet's Cottage in the Tasmanian fishing town of Pencubitt she sets out to discover all she can about her notorious grandmother Pearl Tatlow. Pearl was a children's writer who scandalised 1930s Tasmania with her behaviour. She was also violently murdered in the cellar of Poet's Cottage/i&gt; and her murderer never found. Sadie grew up with a loving version of Pearl through her mother but her aunt Thomasina tells a different story one of a self-obsessed abusive and licentious woman. And Pearl's biographer Birdie Pinkerton has more than enough reason to discredit her. As Sadie and her daughter Betty work to uncover the truth strange events begin to occur in the cottage. And as the terrible secret in the cellar threads its way into the present day it reveals a truth more shocking than the decades-long rumours. Poet's Cottage is a beautiful and haunting mystery of families bohemia truth creativity lies memory and murder.
language: English
title: Poet's Cottage
publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia