The Rocking Horse Garden
The Rocking Horse Garden is a sweeping historical novel set on the east coast of Scotland in the 19th Century, where we follow a family who work as fishermen, herring gutters and domestic servants. Their harsh life is painted sympathetically showing the ups and downs of family life in that era. The novel then grows to encompass emigration to Australia, where the author shows us in vivid detail that terrible, precarious journey. Silwood then closes the circle and we meet with Shona in modern day Melbourne. In her riveting debut novel, Maggie Silwood takes readers on an unforgettable journey filled with mystery, entrapment and release.
By Wendy Catmell