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Jennifer Scoullar

From Jennifer Scoullar, author of the bestselling Fortune’s Son, comes the third book in the Tasmanian Tales series. The Memory Tree carries on this gripping saga of ambition, betrayal and dangerous love.

Playing God is a Dangerous Game

When forest protests engulf a tiny Tasmanian timber town, one family’s century of secrets threatens to destroy a marriage - and bring down a government.

Matt Abbott, head ranger at beautiful Binburra National Park, is a man with something to hide. He confides his secret to nobody, not even his wife Penny. The deception gnaws away at their marriage.

Matt’s father, timber and mining magnate Fraser Abbott, stands for everything Matt hates. Son disappoints father, father disappoints son – this is their well-worn template. But Fraser seems suddenly determined to repair the rift between them at any cost, and Matt will discover that secrets run in the family. When Sarah, a visiting Californian geneticist, tries to steal Matt’s heart, the scene is set for a deadly betrayal. 

The Memory Tree is a haunting story of family relationships, the unbreakable ties we all have to the past and the redemptive power of love. 

Praise for Jennifer Scoullar

‘Scoullar’s writing has a rich complexity. Poetic and visual … the landscape vivid and alive. ’ Reading, Writing and Riesling 

‘Jennifer Scoullar’s passion for the land shines through … Highly recommended. ’ Sunshine Coast Daily

‘An absorbing story … beautifully written. ’ Reading, Writing and Riesling

‘Scoullar, it turns out, is a writer of documentary calibre … lovely, lyrical prose. ’ The Australian.

Jennifer Scoullar lives on a farm in West Gippsland and has previously published six novels with Penguin Random house. A committed conservationist, she writes about the land, people and wildlife that she loves

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The Tasmanian Tales

The Memory Tree

HEADS YOU WIN, TAILS YOU DIE …

Can one man’s revenge become his redemption?

Young Luke Tyler has everything going for him: brains, looks and a larrikin charm that turns heads. The future appears bright, until he defends his sister from the powerful Sir Henry Abbott. His reward is fifteen years hard labour on a prison farm in Tasmania’s remote highlands.

Luke escapes, finding sanctuary with a local philanthropist, Daniel Campbell, and starting a forbidden love affair with Daniel’s daughter, Belle. But when Luke is betrayed, he must flee or be hanged.

With all seeming lost, Luke sails to South Africa to start afresh. Yet he remains haunted by the past, and by Belle, the woman he can’t forget. When he returns to seek revenge and reclaim his life, his actions will have shattering consequences – for the innocent as well as the guilty.

Set against a backdrop of wild Tasmania, Australian Gold and African diamonds, Fortune’s Son is an epic story of betrayal, undying love and one man’s struggle to triumph over adversity and find his way home.
- Praise for Jennifer Scoullar –

‘Scoullar, it turns out, is a writer of documentary calibre … lovely, lyrical prose. ’ The Australian.

‘Jennifer is a writer of great imagination. ’ Author Andrea Goldsmith

‘The people, the animals and the places … such vivid and vibrant story-telling which wholly swept me away’ Beauty and Lace

Fortune’s Son

A Tasmanian East of Eden

The Lost Valley is a sweeping saga of ambition, betrayal and dangerous love. 

Hobart 1929 - Ten-year-old-twins, Tom and Harry Abbott, are orphaned by a tragedy that shocks Hobart society. They find sanctuary with their reclusive grandmother, growing up in the remote and rugged Binburra ranges – a place where kind-hearted Tom discovers a love of the wild, Harry nurses a growing resentment towards his brother and where the mountains hold secrets that will transform both their lives.

The chaos of World War II divides the brothers, and their passion for two very different women fuels a deadly rivalry. Can Tom and Harry survive to heal their rift? And what will happen when Binburra finally reveals its astonishing secrets?

From Tasmania’s highlands to the Battle of Britain, and all the way to the golden age of Hollywood, The Lost Valley is a lush family saga about two brothers whose fates are entwined with the land and the women they love.

Jennifer Scoullar writes page-turning fiction about the land, people and wildlife that she loves. Buy The Lost Valley now to discover why Jennifer Scoullar is one of Australia's favourite story-tellers

The Lost Valley

The Tasmanian Tales - The book series

The Tasmanian Tales - The book series

The Tasmanian Tales books in order

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