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Verses for Violet
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General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $23.99
ISBN13: 9781764471169
Publisher: Centred in Choice
Published: Jun 3 2026
Pages: 390
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
In the heat and stillness of a South Australian valley, Violet returns to the vineyard she once called home, a place shaped by memory, love, and loss. Years earlier, she fled in fear after a night that changed the course of her life, leaving behind Betty, the land, and a love too powerful to name. Now, drawn back by grief and unfinished responsibility, Violet must face the woman she never forgot and the truth she has carried across oceans.
As executors of their friends' final wishes, Violet and Betty are bound together again, not only by duty, but by a shared past that refuses to remain silent. Around them, the vineyard hums with life, a living system of soil, vine, and care, echoing the deeper work of renewal taking place within them. The land holds their story, as it always has, asking them to listen, to reckon, and perhaps to begin again.
Told in flowing verse, Verses for Violet is a deeply Australian story of return to Country, to self, and to love. It explores grief, identity, courage, and the quiet resilience required to face what was left undone. With themes of regenerative living and the enduring wisdom of place, this is a novel about healing that does not rush, and love that does not disappear.
Some journeys lead away. Others, inevitably, lead home.
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