Family secrets, despite their quiescence, do not die entirely. They merely compost over the decades, becoming part of a soil which produces new consequences for old decisions.
Ruth and Todd are a generation apart. She is a pillar of the church and he is on the point of leaving it. One day Ruth, who is 93, invites Todd to a Bequest Society luncheon at the Port Adelaide football club – she has surrendered her driving licence and would welcome both a companion and a ride. At church Todd and Ruth talk about the footy. At the club they talk about their lives and their church.
When Ruth reveals how, at age six, she was seriously injured, falling nine metres into the empty hold of the old Windjammer her family lived on, it marks the start of a quest by Ruth and Todd to better understand her family and its secrets. For it was on the day of this accident that Ruth’s father mysteriously disappeared from her life.
Friendship cuts through Ruth and Todd’s differences to shed light not only on past secrets but on what is passing in their lives now: her church and his faith.
Cuprins
Prologue
Chapter One
Port Adelaide 1935 – The First Secret
Chapter Two
Alberton 2015 – The First Conversation
Chapter Three
Port Districts 1936-1954 – Making our Way
Chapter Four
Retreat to the Garden
Chapter Five
Port Adelaide 1945-1960 – Working and Waiting
Chapter Six
Port Adelaide 1960-1982 – The Second Secret
Chapter Seven
The First Garden Story
Chapter Eight
Cheltenham 1984-2010 – Passings
Chapter Nine
The End of Worlds
Chapter Ten
Wimereux, France 1916 – Poem from the Trenches
Chapter Eleven
Yorke Peninsula 1923 – Lilac and Rocks
Chapter Twelve
Port Adelaide 1949 – ‘The Dinner’ Revisited
Chapter Thirteen
Cheltenham 2021 – The Third Secret
Chapter Fourteen
The Bent Pine Compost
Chapter Fifteen
The Book of Ruth
Epilogue
Author’s note
Sources
Acknowledgements
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