Our Spring books continue with the release today of A Secret Grief, a memoir by 97-year-old author Natalie Scott.
In A Secret Grief, Scott looks back across almost a century to explore the fragile terrain of childhood memory and emotion.
At its heart is Natasha (Natalie's name as a child) Ross, a young girl growing up in 1930s and 1940s Australia. Her brilliant yet volatile mother, Nina, hovers between love and despair; her father, Marcus, is torn between loyalty to his wife and tenderness for his daughter.
Told with lyrical grace and emotional honesty, A Secret Grief is both intensely personal and quietly universal — a meditation on how families love, wound, and forgive.
It’s a work of extraordinary reflection from one of Australia’s oldest living authors, written with a clarity of voice that only time and distance can provide.