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The Golden Thread

Tea Cooper

Start date: March 1, 2025

Finish date: March 31, 2025

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Oct 31, 2024 Brenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: aussie-authors, net-galley, read-on-kindle, arc, own-read, historical-fiction, 2024-release, 3000-2024

It was 1889 in Maitland, New South Wales, when eighteen year old Constance Montague woke to find her grandmother, Nell, missing. After searching all the places she knew to look, and the police showed no interest, Connie discovered Nell had been seen at the railway station. It was then Connie decided to head to Sydney by train, over the new Hawkesbury Bridge, which had been opened the day before. She first headed to Government House, and was told Old Government House in Parramatta was now a board ...more

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Nov 02, 2024 Helen rated it it was amazing

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MS Cooper has never disappointed me and this one is another brilliant story from a master story teller, set around Maitland and Parramatta in 1889 we meet Nell Montague her granddaughter Connie and a cast of awesome characters that make this story unputdownable come along for a thrilling story filled with skullduggery, mystery and yes danger.

When Connie wakes up on a Wednesday morning and finds that her grandmother has gone and not home for their usual family breakfast with her mother Faith and MS Cooper has never disappointed me and this one is another brilliant story from a master story teller, set around Maitland and Parramatta in 1889 we meet Nell Montague her granddaughter Connie and a cast of awesome characters that make this story unputdownable come along for a thrilling story filled with skullduggery, mystery and yes danger.

When Connie wakes up on a Wednesday morning and finds that her grandmother has gone and not home for their usual family breakfast with her mother Faith and then there to attend a meeting to be held that day Connie is very worried and when a walk doesn’t locate Nell, Connie is determined to track Nell down and finds herself on the train to Sydney going over the new Hawkesbury River bridge.

Connie with the help from a friend of Nell’s in Maitland and with directions given to her from journalist Bob Ballantyne, who she met on the train finds herself at the new Government House is Sydney asking after a Mrs. Alexander she is told that she is at the old Government House in Parramatta another train trip and Connie locates Nell and when she introduces Connie as her companion and not her granddaughter Connie is convinced that there is something going on and she knows she must get to the truth, who is her grandmother? Connie is soon very good friends with a couple of the residents Taylor and Maisie and also Miss Pettigrew, she is steering clear of the male residents.

Connie is soon learning small tidbits at a time about Nell’s past life and when there are small curios going missing and Nell is being blamed by the housekeeper Mrs. Alexander and there seems to have been a break-in at the guest house things heat up and danger is afoot but it also seems that Nell has found what she is looking for and the faster they get what Nell came for and get back to Maitland and sort out what started this trip the better but will there be more danger back at home, will they get the answers Nell is looking for?

This is such a brilliant story with awesome characters I loved Nell, Connie and Taylor and Maisie and of course Miss Pettigrew who might be hard of hearing but her eyesight is perfect. I do highly recommend this one, truly it is a must read for any lover of historical fiction the setting, the characters and the mystery are the best.

My thanks to HQ Fiction and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.
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