Madden, Emily,

Heart of the cross / Emily Madden. - First Australian paperback edition. - 392 pages ; 24 cm

"Tinahely, Ireland, 1959: Rosie Hart is content leaving her home behind to follow her new husband to Australia. But she soon discovers there is no room for her or their young son in the life he has built in vibrant Kings Cross. As their marriage crumbles, Rosie will need to fight for the golden future her son deserves... until the day her world is shattered and all hope turns to dust. Eighteen years later, haunted by her past, Rosie is determined her daughter Maggie will follow the path she has set out for her. But when Maggie rejects her plans and moves out of home, all Rosie can hope is that she has also left behind the grief that plagues the Hart name. Sydney, 2017: When her grandmother dies and leaves Brianna Hart a secret apartment in Kings Cross, Brie wonders what else Rosie was keeping from her. As Brie chases the truth of Rosie's past she uncovers an incredible story of passion, violence, love and tragedy. Is the Hart family's legacy of loss inescapable, or has Rosie gifted her granddaughter with a future of hope?"--

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Families--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
Nineteen fifties--Fiction.
Nineteen seventies--Fiction.


Ireland--Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--Fiction.


Domestic fiction.