The Secret Man

When Alex returns to his family in Melbourne after travelling the world for 10 years, he discovers that everyone who lives in his mother’s house has a secret.
Prompted by a childhood memory he visits a blackberry covered shack on the creek at the back of the property. The shack was the hiding place for a man Alex had never met, but who still lived on the edge of Alex’s awareness.
Can a patch of earth hold the traces of a man’s soul?
What Alex finds in the shack leads him to revisit his family’s tragic history – the German occupation of Crete, the Greek resistance and an orange farm in Mildura.
A novel about what a man found when he entered the dark and made the long journey home.