Golden Thread

In Golden Thread, a quiet morning in Maitland in 1889 turns into something far stranger when nineteen-year-old Constance Montague discovers her grandmother Nell has vanished. Connie follows the trail to Old Government House in Parramatta, now operating as a guest house, and finds Nell very much present, and holding court among an eclectic mix of residents and visitors. As Connie is introduced as Nell’s “companion”, she begins to see unsettling cracks in the family story she thought she knew. Nell is chasing something tied to her past, and Connie is drawn into a knot of missing gold, a dress stitched long ago, and secrets hidden in the attic. The deeper Connie digs, the more the past reaches forward, putting both women at risk.