Black Wattle

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...

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Praise

Small stones make big ripples in time... A compelling story of family, marriage and betrayal. Through Patmore’s eloquent prose we endure the hardship of Iris’s emigration from England to Australia after World War I. We suffer the indignities, bear the losses and see the repercussions of the choices Iris made for a better life. A story that eventually brings us back to where it all started when Jarrah seeks to understand Iris’s journey. An accomplished debut that lives beyond the page.

– Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Author, Editor. UK

I was totally involved with this unique multigenerational story and it's compelling descriptions of complex characters and of the hardships of early West Australian settlers. An absolute page turner!

– Linda Morison. Author of Lindacita sails the Bahamas.

Quintessential Australian historical fiction.

– Anne Freeman Author

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 Released in 2027 Hawkeye PublishingSet in early 20th-century Western

Released in 2027 Hawkeye Publishing

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