The Hanging Tree

Twenty-five years later, Wilson’s nephew Bill decides to tell some of the stories hidden beneath his own family’s silence. He finds a letter, written before he was born, by a young woman who loved two of the charismatic Masters brothers. Seeking out the letter writer, Bill journeys into his family’s past and also begins to change the shape of the future. Set against a backdrop of social change in twentieth-century Australia, The Hanging Tree revisits people and places from Jillian Watkinson’s prizewinning novel, The Architect.