The dazzling story of family, passion, secrets and vengeance, woven through the hardships of both World Wars, and revealing the intriguing history of the Palace, the opulent Blue Mountains hotel famed for its luxury and mysterious owner.
- ISBN:
- 9781760111601
- 9781760111601
- Category:
- Fiction
- Publication Date:
- 01-06-2015
- Publisher:
- ALLEN & UNWIN
- Edition:
- 1st Edition
- Pages:
- 560
- Dimensions (mm):
- 234x153x43mm
- Weight:
- 0.74kg
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The Palace of Tears is an extraordinary story, full of mystery…so much mystery and incorporates part of Australian history that I had never known about – the deportation of Germans in our country during the war and the cruelty of our fellow Australians towards those Germans, the horrific treatment of unwed, single pregnant women in the hospital and the like. I’m sure somewhere along the lines I would’ve heard something but I may have been rather ignorant or reluctant to listen. It was a real eye opener.
And with all those little facts a fiction novel was created around the Foxes and the Woods and the intricate relationship between them both. The ending isn’t quite what I expected. I had been literally thrown for a loop when a major discovery was made and that’s when I decided that I really liked the story.
At times it had seemed a bit too in-depth with its description and overuse of words and I tended to run over those paragraphs rather quickly. But that wasn’t very often and didn’t ruin the whole story. It still flowed and captured my attention (when my attention was able to be caught). And every time I put the book down and picked it back up again I never forgot what had happened. It was like waiting for another episode of a favourite tv show to come out – you just never forget.
The mystery surrounding the whole book was the clincher. What did happen to little Angie? The one who broke all their hearts. That is the true mystery behind the story and one that you don’t discover the answer to until the second last chapter. That was how good this story was – the mystery wasn’t solved until the very end – unless you’re some sort of genius and figured it out a long time ago. I for a fact didn’t see it coming.
If you enjoy watching shows like Downton Abbey or like a bit of mystery in the books you read, then I recommend that you pick this one up – especially if you also want to learn a little of the hidden history of Australia during the war. It was a fantastic read that’ll have you making your assumptions about the mystery of the Foxes and the Woods, and enjoying the ride through Family Ancestry that might also convince you to look into your own.
A wonderful first novel. And I hope Julian Leatherdale continues with a career as an author as he does know how to spin a tale and how to finish it off.
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