One Small Life

One Small Life

Suspense and secrets in the 1920s, on a heartbreaking journey to find true home. Grace Anderson is an outsider, abandoned as a baby. She thinks the job at the orchard by the ocean, about as far south as you can get in Australia, is her big chance. Instead it’s set to break her. Trapped and scared, she escapes to a remote maritime community, where kindness is a mask – but for what? In her darkest hour, she’s confronted with the disturbing truth of the family she’s never known. It shatters what she believes about herself and the people she’s come to trust. It’s a truth that won’t leave her alone. She must face a choice that will change everything. Despite the hurt and despair, what she does next will determine what kind of woman she really is and whether she can heal or stay forever broken. A powerful story about courage, love, and the decisions that shape us and the direction of our lives when we least expect it. “ I just could not put it down, it gave me many late nights. ” “ Mesmerising.” “… love every moment of this fantastic story … read this book, that lets you experience a strong will of survival despite impossible difficulties.” “Narrative is beautifully spare. I was immediately engaged and intrigued …” Anna is a former journalist, worked in an outback pub in crocodile country, was a political adviser, and an adult educator. She was a wordsmith-for-hire providing communications consultancy services to major clients for nearly two decades but now writes for readers like you. Her debut novel has been widely praised for its gripping story and compelling style. The Way to Midnight, a 1930s mystery that resonates today, was inspired by a true family scandal that she researched for almost a decade. Find out what it takes to dig up a family secret, with your free copy of Disgrace: Uncovering a Family Scandal, available at www.annahousego.com Her second novel, One Small Life, follows the struggle of a traumatised woman to make her life count in the face of dire events. Anna grew up in a small wilderness town full of eccentrics and colourful characters and now lives near the Southern Ocean in Tasmania, a small island below the south-eastern corner of Australia. Her two grown-up children and their families are nearby.