A hundred year old mystery, the widow left behind, a fallen soldier, an unnamed body and a young student determined to find the truth. In 1886 famous English poet Edward Barrington moves from Derbyshire, England to a farm on the Finniss River, in South Australia. Two years later he disappears. 25 years later Archie Hargraves abandons his fianc???e Clara and travels from England to meet with Edward's widow, Rosalind. He plans to write a biography and make a name for himself, independent from his wealthy father. Returning to ...
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A hundred year old mystery, the widow left behind, a fallen soldier, an unnamed body and a young student determined to find the truth. In 1886 famous English poet Edward Barrington moves from Derbyshire, England to a farm on the Finniss River, in South Australia. Two years later he disappears. 25 years later Archie Hargraves abandons his fianc???e Clara and travels from England to meet with Edward's widow, Rosalind. He plans to write a biography and make a name for himself, independent from his wealthy father. Returning to England in 1914 he abandons his work to join the war in Europe. His journal of notes from Australia is never released. Ellie Cannon, a young PhD candidate at Sydney University, is writing a thesis on one of Barrington's last known poems, The Fall. It's not going well. Struggling with her relationship with her mother and loss of her father, Ellie is on the brink of failure. Then a body is found by the Finniss River, 130 years after Edward's disappearance. Could it be the famous poet?
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