Anna Romer - Lyrebird Hill

After I finished Lyrebird Hill I had this special feeling in my stomach - I loved this book. It went deep under my skin. Lyrebird Hill is an intriguing, intelligent story about the history of a family, about lies and treason and love. It has two story lines; one takes place in 1898 and is about Brenna, a girl that marries a man twice her age to save her fathers property at Lyrebird Hill as well as the beloved aboriginal tribe that lives there. The other story settles in 2013 I just finished Lyrebird Hill five minutes ago and I have this special feeling in my stomach - I loved this book. It went deep under my skin. Lyrebird Hill is an intriguing, intelligent story about the history of a family, about lies and treason and love. It has two story lines; one takes place in 1898 and is about Brenna, a girl that marries a man twice her age to save her fathers property at Lyrebird Hill as well as the beloved aboriginal tribe that lives there. The other story settles in 2013 and is about Ruby, a 30-year old woman that lost her sister in a tragic accident at the age of twelve, and can't remember what has happened in the year around her death. Both stories are alternating between chapters. I couldn't decide which I loved more - I didn't want to leave Brenna from the 1890s but was also eager to know what would happen next in Rubys search for her lost memories.

I had to hold my breath more than a couple of times, and the closer the stories came to their ending, the more exited I got - that's a great piece of climaxbuilding going on in this book. As I already noted in my review of Thornwood House, Anna Romer writes very lively and naturally sounding dialogues. Furthermore the decriptions of nature, the smell of flowers and the sounds of birds make me feel like being transferred to the Australian outback and being with the characters. Sigh. I loved this book as much as Thornwood House. I love your writing, Anna Romer. I hope many more books will follow the first two.

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