Thorn on the Rose: A Woody Creek Novel 2

The second book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman"Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" The AgeSpanning a momentous wartime decade, Thorn on the Rose is the spellbinding sequel to Pearl in a CageIt is 1939 and Jenny Morrison, distraught and just fifteen years of age, has fled the tiny logging community of Woody Creek for a new life in the big smoke.

But four months later she is back - wiser, with an expensive new wardrobe, and bearing another dark secret...She takes refuge with Gertrude, her dependable granny and Woody Creek's indomitable midwife, and settles into a routine in the ever-expanding and chaotic household.But can she ever put the trauma of her past behind her and realise her dream of becoming a famous singer? Or is she doomed to follow in the footsteps of her tragic and mysterious mother?