Under Ten Thousand Stars

Written by Samantha Wood

Narrated by Caroline Lee

"Michael was my love ... the perfect man, the perfect husband. I had the perfect life. And then it all went wrong."

Julia Falconer is an artist married to a successful winemaker in the coastal hinterland of southern Victoria. From the outside, it looks like Julia and Michael have it all ? but things are never as they seem. A storm has destroyed a major crop, Michael is devastated, and is taking it out on Julia. And Julia retreats into herself, taking solace in her work, wine ... and the comfort of her friend Christopher.



Having stopped communicating almost entirely with Michael, Julia finds herself grappling with how her feelings towards Christopher are changing. He listens, he cares, he talks. But what does he really want?

Soon Julia will discover how wrong she was about the man she thought she loved ... and the man she really does love.

Under Ten Thousand Stars is a story about secrets and lies, loss and betrayal, and how people are never what they seem.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Magpie Tree Press
• Release date: Apr 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9780995442160

Samantha Wood

Samantha Wood is the author of the memoir, Culua: My Other Life in Mexico, which was published in 2003. The Bay of Shadows, her first novel, was published in December 2016 and was inspired by the beach town where she grew up. Her follow-up novel, Under Ten Thousand Stars, a love story set in wine country, was released in May 2019. She began her writing career with a travel piece for the Qantas In-Flight magazine. From then on, she travelled extensively between Mexico and Australia before writing the memoir, Culua: My Other Life in Mexico, a love letter to her mother's country. She went on to write The Bay of Shadows, a novel about the unconventional bonds of love, and Under Ten Thousand Stars, another tale of love against the odds. Her third novel, The Song of Clouds, set on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, and the final book in the Coastal Noir Trilogy, was released on February 28, 2022. She lives in a coastal town outside of Melbourne, Australia. To keep up with all her book news, head over to her website where you can sign up for her monthly newsletter: www.samanthawoodauthor.com www.instagram.com/samanthawoodauthor www.facebook.com/samanthawoodauthor