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Ashworth - Unburied Sin
Paperback
Series: Ashworth, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 20 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sydney, 1891-1960.
Louisa Ashworth has spent a lifetime turning other people's shame into something she can manage - a ledger of names, dates, and quiet arrangements that keeps a family together by making sure it never has to look at itself too closely. She has a name for every occasion: a widow's name, a mother's name, a name she gives a policeman and a name she gives a priest. What she does not have, not really, not since she was twenty years old, is a name of her own.
Then her niece dies - seventeen years old - and the inquest that follows threatens to destroy exactly what the Ashworth's have spent 2 generations beforehand building. A pencil message on a bedroom wall. A child registered under a name that was never legally hers. A man who vanished west the moment he learned there would be a child at all, and who Louisa has told the world died fighting a war he never went near.
Every alias holds, for a while. Every secret survives one more Christmas, one more wedding, one more daughter who grows up not quite knowing why her mother watches the door. But the thing about what you try to bury is that it does not wont go easily to the grave. It waits - for an inquest, for a marriage, for a locked drawer someone finally finds the key to, for a girl who is finally old enough to ask the one question her mother has spent her whole life refusing to answer.
Louisa Ashworth kept her family whole by making sure no one ever saw the seams. This is the story of everything the seams were holding together - and of the three daughters who, long after she is gone, finally sit down together and read what she left them to find.
Ashworth: Unburied Sin is The Debut novel of the Ashworth series - a multi-generational saga of one family's talent for reinvention, and the buried truths that eventually surface no matter how carefully they are put in the ground.
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