The Fern Tattoo
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The Fern Tattoo
A century of family secrets starts to unravel when Benedict Waters is summoned to an audience with an old friend of his mothers. He is seduced by her storytelling and it takes time and an astonishing revelation before he realises that it it his own family he has been hearing about, his own life that is being undone.
The Fern Tattoo
A century of family secrets starts to unravel during a storytelling that covers generations of three families. An extravagantly tattooed librarian, a bigamist bishop, lost loves, death and unspoken histories take the characters from the Blue Mountains to Sydney and the south coast of New South Wales.
Lucky In The Corner
In many ways, Nora and Fern are just like any other mother and daughter - their tumultuous relationship marked by brooding silences and curt exchanges. But Fern has never really forgiven her mother for detonating their nuclear family in the process of coming out as a lesbian, and replacing Fern's father with her lover, Jeanne. For Nora, Fern is an enigma - incomprehensible.Nora's relationship with Jeanne has settled into domestic stability, triggering in Nora a familiar restlessness that leads to an affair. When Fern discovers her mother's indiscretion, she looks for support to her best friend, Tracy, who is struggling to raise a baby. As Fern begins to take on more of the baby's care herself, she discovers some of the powerful ambiguities of parental love - and starts to find her way back to her own mother.