Crows On The Roof

What the eye can't see can save us It’s 1980 and in Australia’s hottest town, about as far north as you can go, everyone's running from something. Bec has just rolled in, fleeing a life in pieces, a promising career as a journalist, and a man intent on finding her.\nAlong the dusty street, an elderly Chinese woman sits in the shade and watches on, certain now that nothing will ever be the same.\nLily turned up decades ago, leaving her own broken world behind. She's come to understand the wildness of this place, and the power of greater forces, the kind you can’t see that run deep, shaping fate.\nAs the two women are inextricably drawn to each other, they must confront what’s been left behind.
Lily must go back to the early 1900s, as an outsider in a country that shunned her, as a wife and mother who lost everything she held dear.\nBec’s reckoning is much closer, though she doesn’t know it yet. The town is isolated, so she risks staying to rest up for a while and gets work at the local pub.\nThere’s a lot at stake in the mysterious bond that forms between the unlikely pair. Lily might finally get free from the tragedies of her past, while Bec might learn how to save herself.\nThey’ll need to do it soon. Time is running out for them both.\nSuspense in a page-turning story of hidden lives, loss, and the healing that can come from unexpected places when bad things happen.\nCrows On The Roof is Anna Housego’s third novel. Her others are One Small Life and The Way To Midnight.
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What they said about ONE SMALL LIFE:\nI loved this book. I was captivated from beginning to end. Goodreads reviewer\nWhat a wonderful, immersive novel … She brought the world of the little community around the lighthouse to life so vividly that I could smell the salt-laden air and feel the wind on my face. Amazon reviewer\nI couldn’t put it down. I stayed up all night reading it. Goodreads reviewer