The Hidden

185 pages. What is the purpose of photography? To bring the dark into the light. To make the hidden seen. A photographer prepares an exhibition of her early work for he r London gallery. As she sorts through the faded prints of photographs taken in Australia more than 20 years before, she is forced to relive the story she has c arried alone all these years, the story no one else knows not even her beloved s on. Years before, on assignment in Australia she had fallen in love and swiftly married. She and her husband had gone to stay at his property, set in rugged bus hland outside the little town of Rock Forrest. There, amid the harsy alien lands cape and hostile township, she finds herself increasingly drawn towards the wild ness and beauty of the bush as a way of escaping from the increasingly disturbin g behaviour of her husband. Searching for reasons for his actions, she stumbles upon a truth so horrifying she can barely contemplate it. But by then she is a p art of it, and cannot escape its consequences.…