SECRETS BY JUDI MORISON

Widowed matriarch Ruth, owner of the homestead 'Cora', lived with a secret for 60 years. Now, her estranged family must reunite and face the truth as the past, present and future collide...

- BY JUDI MORISON

Cora, September 2016.

From the freshly greening hillside in the mountain range that snaked between the east coast and the central plains, Ruth's grave overlooked the acreage on which her home, Cora, sat. Paint crumbling to talcum on its faded white weatherboards, Cora shone stark beside the kunzeas that already pressed their mauve-pink flowers against its verandah. Along the range north and south, valleys cupped morning cloud, and from Ruth's garden below, a pied currawong called.