The Cartographer’s Secret Author Tea Cooper Publication November 16,2021 by Harper Muse Paperback 400 pages
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My Review
With the author living in Australia you get a true authenticity to her stories as opposed to others who write about an area they have researched but have never stepped foot in.
The descriptions and setting of the story were well received, I truly feel as though I have visited this majestic area through this book.
The dual time line has us spending time in The Hunter Valley, 1880 with Evie Ludgrove and thirty years later when Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate in her Ford Model T to inform her great-aunt Olivia of a loss in their family.
We find out Evie, who grew up seeing her father’s obsession with Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt had set out thirty years ago to prove how Leichhardt met his end and in doing so would claim a substantial reward.
Evie is an excellent artist and charts everything in her maps. She is determined to prove her theory correct and will take her father’s papers with her as well.
This book is completely spellbinding as I could not stop reading it.
I had to see if Letitia who finds a beautifully illustrated map would have any luck with this family’s unsolved mystery of thirty years. The closer you get to the truth the more dangerous it may become and not all is as it seems.
I absolutely could not put this spellbinding book down!
Pub Date 16 Nov 2021
I was given a complimentary copy of this book. Thank you.
All opinions expressed are my own.
GoodReads Synopsis
A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery.
The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home—hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt. So when an advertisement appears in The Bulletin magazine offering a thousand-pound reward for proof of where Leichhardt met his fate, Evie is determined to use her father’s papers to unravel the secret. But when Evie sets out to prove her theory, she vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a mystery that haunts her family for thirty years.
Letitia Rawlings arrives at the family estate in her Ford Model T to inform her great-aunt Olivia of a loss in their family. But Letitia is also escaping her own problems—her brother’s sudden death, her mother’s scheming, and her dissatisfaction with the life planned out for her. So when Letitia discovers a beautifully illustrated map that might hold a clue to the fate of her missing aunt, Evie Ludgrove, she sets out to discover the truth. But all is not as it seems, and Letitia begins to realize that solving the mystery of her family’s past could offer as much peril as redemption.
A gripping historical mystery for fans of Kate Morton and Natasha Lester’s The Paris Seamstress, The Cartographer’s Secret follows a young woman’s quest to heal a family rift as she becomes entangled in one of Australia’s greatest historical puzzles.
“A galvanizing, immersive adventure . . . forcing the characters to reckon with the choice found at the crux of passion and loyalty and the power of shared blood that can either destroy or heal.” —Joy Callaway, international bestselling author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society
About The Author
Tea Cooper is an Australian author of historical and contemporary fiction. In a past life she was a teacher, a journalist and a farmer. These days she haunts museums and indulges her passion for storytelling.
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