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  • Published: 28 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143206521
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $30.00
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The Stone Angel





'A truly absorbing book filled with secrets and conflicts.' Woman's Day

One summer changed Stella Boyd forever. It was 1975. And his name was Zeph.

Fifteen years later, Stella's life is full of excitement and danger as she travels the world writing magazine articles about women. But then one day she receives an urgent message that changes everything. Her father is missing at sea.

Stella heads home to Halfmoon Bay, the Tasmanian fishing village where she grew up. She desperately doesn't want to face the painful memories that await her. But as she takes part in the search for her father, the life of her old home draws in around her. She finds herself taken back to that extraordinary summer when she met a young man who was sailing the world alone. A time of devastating tragedy, but also of first love . . .

Like the sea itself, the past rises up, refusing to be ignored. There are dark secrets to be unearthed, lost dreams recovered. Only then can hearts be healed, and an unexpected reward be claimed.

'A truly absorbing book filled with secrets and conflicts.' Woman's Day

  • Published: 28 February 2011
  • ISBN: 9780143206521
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Katherine Scholes

Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. She was born in Tanzania and six of her adult novels are set there, during the Independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division. Her novel she wrote afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award. The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026), brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.

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Awards & recognition

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Longlisted  •  2008  •  General