A forced relocation, a tragic death and the mother who survived it all.
Linus Tallis is a respectable man, one of the most successful and well connected in all of Tasmania. His reputation and that of his family is of the utmost importance, so when he hears rumours of his married daughter Penny parading around St Helens with her ex-boyfriend he finds a way to separate them.
From the author of Boots, comes a new novel inspired by a true story about grief, motherhood and the quiet violence of shame and judgement. Set in coastal Tasmania and regional New South Wales in the 1970s, Mothering from the Ashes, is a love letter to all the mothers who have had to keep going, even when they were broken.