

"This is Kate at the peak of her storytelling powers. When, nearly 60 years later, a journalist is called back home from London to visit her ailing grandmother, a secret is finally let slip and the door into the grand house’s mysterious world opens again." The publisher wrote: " Homecoming opens on New Year’s Day 1959 in the grounds of a grand and mysterious house nestled deep in the Adelaide Hills and what is discovered there will reverberate down the decades and tear the local community apart. The novel will be published as Mantle’s superlead title on 13th April 2023. Catalan, Spanish, French, German, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish rights have also been sold. US rights have been sold by Kremer to Mariner Books and Canadian rights to Simon & Schuster, with Allen & Unwin publishing Morton in Australia and New Zealand.

Publisher Maria Rejt acquired UK publishing rights from Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. Mantle has swooped for Kate Morton’s "stunning" new novel, Homecoming, amid a flurry of rights deals around the world.
