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Joy Dettman
For forty-four years Stella Templeton has been a dutiful daughter and a good citizen, living in Maidenville, population 2,800 where nothing happens.Until one hot summer afternoon.An ugly act has lifted…
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Joy Dettman is a natural-born storyteller whose dark tales of rural life are addictive (The Age)At the beginning of her writing journey, Joy Dettman’s charming, irascible, melancholy, wisecracking characters appeared…
Ann Burton was born on a river bank the night her father tried to burn their house down.Six years later her sister Liza disappears while they are staying at their…
On a balmy midsummer’s evening in 1923, a young woman - foreign, dishevelled and heavily pregnant - is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community…
The old timber town of Woody Creek has a way of getting under people’s skin… Woody Creek is preparing for its centenary celebrations but for many of its townspeople it’s…
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Georgie - Independent and spirited, Georgie is her mother’s daughter through and through. But after a house fire both takes the life of her sister, Margot, and burns her home…
The final instalment in Joy Dettman’s bestselling Woody Creek series.
Pearl in a Cage ended in May 1939 when, just 15 years old, Jenny Morrison fled Woody Creek for Melbourne. She left behind a dysfunctional family, a town of gossips…
The wind is whispering in Woody Creek…Change is in the air. It’s 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged - kicking and screaming - into the swinging sixties. Jenny’s daughters…
From the bestselling author of Mallawindy, the Woody Creek and Henry’s Daughter series comes a story of love and survival. From the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek…
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The year is 1946. The war ended five months ago. Jim Hooper, Jenny Morrison’s only love, was lost to that war. And if not for Jenny, he would never have…
As Woody Creek draws its cast of characters back into its grip, confessions, discoveries and truths are set to explode in a shocking showdown.
In the final instalment of Joy Dettman’s beloved Woody Creek series, we return to the small timber town where it all began.
Only the strong survive Mallawindy. Some get away, but even they fight to escape the town’s dark legacy. Jack Burton escaped. For six years he has been missing, presumed dead…
1939: Jenny Morrison, distraught and just 15 years of age, has fled the tiny logging community of Woody Creek for a new life in the big smoke. But four months…
After many tumultuous years spent grappling with the past, Jenny Hooper might have expected her latter years to be the best of her life, and they are - until tragedy…
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On a summer’s evening in 1923, a heavily pregnant young woman is found unconscious just off the railway tracks in the tiny logging community of Woody Creek. The town midwife…
The war ended five months ago. Jim Hooper, Jenny Morrison’s only love, was lost to that war. And if not for Jenny, he would never have gone. Unforgiving Vern Hooper…
Secrets lurking behind closed doors could be the key to saving the life of a young girl
The year is 1929, The Great War with Germany has been fought and won, but residents in the town of Molliston woke one Sunday to the news that a young…
Born on the banks of a creek while her father is on a drunken rampage, Ann Burton begins life unwanted and misunderstood. Six years later, when her favoured older sister…
Its 1958 and Woody Creek is being dragged kicking and screaming into the swinging sixties.
The latest novel from celebrated saga writer Joy Dettman Book 5 of 6 in the historical Woody Creek series A family drama, suspense thriller and romance all in one.
Lori Smyth-Owen isn’t your average teenager - as you’d expect from the only girl in a family of 12. Or they were a family, until their father took his own…
