The Heirloom : An immersive dual time novel of inheritance and secrets

Author: Brooks, Julie

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 26 June 2025 by Headline Publishing Group (Headline Review) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 384 pages
196 x 129 x 27 | 274g

'A fabulous family legacy tale' Peterborough TelegraphA surprise inheritance. A hidden past.

Brisbane, 2024 Barista and budding artist Mia Curtis is shocked to receive a package all the way from England informing her she's the heir to her late grandmother's cottage. Feeling lost in her own life, Mia travels across the world to claim her inheritance, where she begins to unravel the secrets passed down through the generations of women in her family.

Sussex, 1821 Philadelphia Boadle wakes to find her husband, the tailor Jasper Boadle, dead. As the daughter of the local cunning woman, Philadelphia is soon accused of murder by witchcraft. Her future and that of her own daughter is at stake, unless she can convince the village she's done no wrong...

Acclaim for Julie Brooks: 'A sweeping tale of family secrets, betrayal, jealousy, ambition and forbidden

romance . . . Fans of The Thorn Birds and Downton Abbey will love the

epic scope of this novel'

ALI MERCER 'I thoroughly enjoyed this immersive story . . . and I can pay it no greater compliment other than to say, I wish I'd written it'

KATHRYN HUGHES