By Anne Lovell
On February 4, 1939, Connie Sommerlad was once brutally butchered and her brother left for lifeless of their relations farmhouse in rural Tenterfield. It used to be a homicide that might rock the tight-knit group; a homicide made the entire extra surprising through the truth that their assailant was once a neighborhood guy operating for the Sommerlads. Jack Kelly, who used to be to turn into the final individual to be hanged in New South Wales, struggled to give an explanation for his lousy crime while he confronted the gallows. but this was once faraway from the single secret to be uncovered via Connie's tragic finish. What relatively occurred to Connie in these misplaced years among her movement to Sydney as a tender lady and her fateful go back to her domestic city? And what was once the key so shameful that, at the same time Kelly stood trial for her homicide, the Sommerlads conspired to maintain it from the general public checklist? Vividly evoking small-town Australia within the months top as much as the outbreak of worldwide battle II, Connie's Secret brings to lifestyles the tale of a hugely good kinfolk desperately attempting to guard their gifted yet wayward daughter's recognition at a time whilst faith, advantage, and retaining appearances held sway over each suggestion and deed. This interesting perception into one other period is written with the emotional strength of a unique, yet those occasions did happen—and their devastating influence remains to be felt through these left at the back of even at the present time.
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