Lyrebird Mountain

De: Julie Lake

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

A man. A woman. And the mountain that tears them apart.
Anna is a child of Lyrebird Mountain, attuned to its wild ways and ancient spirits. Here she falls passionately in love with Jack, a young artist, but war intervenes and she comes to believe that her lover has died or abandoned her, leaving her pregnant and alone.

She marries a neighbouring farmer but the marriage is unhappy so Anna turns to the dark forests of the mountain to find inspiration of what becomes her life’s work as a photographer and writer.
Then Jack returns and the old passion is reignited. They plan to go away together but again some force – fate, human agency, the mountain’s latent power - nobody can be sure - forces them apart and Anna has to pick up her life again in the aftermath of tragedy.

As always, Anna finds her strength and consolation in the wild forests of Lyrebird Mountain and rarely strays far from it until the outbreak of another war forces her to go to Vienna in search of her missing daughter.

Anna leaves her diaries, letters and other papers to her granddaughter, Laura, who uses them to reconstruct her grandmother’s remarkable life. In doing so she comes to understand the woman she loved but never knew, sharing this task with her own troubled, nihilistic granddaughter, Sunny. Together both women find perspective for their own lives as well as an appreciation of the power of place to call its children home.