The Water Diviner

Andrew Anastasios · Meaghan Wilson Anastasios

Dec 2014 · Macmillan Publishers Aus.

About this ebook

Constantinople, 1919. Joshua Connor, an Australian farmer, arrives in Turkey to fulfil a pledge made on his wife's grave - to find the bodies of their three sons, lost in Gallipoli, and bring them home.

In the enemy city Connor meets Orhan, a mischievous Turkish boy, and his mother Ayshe, who is struggling to keep her family hotel afloat and rebuild her life after the war.

Connor can trace life-giving water under the earth, but finding his sons at Gallipoli seems impossible when faced with the gruesome landscape of sun-bleached bones and rotting uniforms. But a Turkish officer gives the broken father hope where there was none. - Connor's eldest son may be alive.

As Connor risks his life travelling into the heart of Anatolia one question haunts him: If his son is alive why hasn't he come home?

This novel tells the complete story of The Water Diviner and is based on the original screenplay by Andrew Anastasios and Andrew Knight. It is inspired by true events found within personal accounts and official records from the Great War.

Ratings and reviews

Well written and clearly researched. If I could've read it in one sitting i would've! Very hard to put down and story doesn't have a lull in it at all. Any book that makes you teary is a book worth reading!

Love it. So we'll written. Having seen the movie first,the scenes played out before me as I read the book making it all the more enjoyable. Highly recommended

This book is a treasure to be unearthed from Aladdins Cave itself. May the writers stories writhe further magic for our hearts and minds in the future. Install an

About the author

Meaghan Wilson Anastasios spent her formative years in Melbourne before travelling and working as an archaeologist in the Mediterranean and Middle East. She holds a PhD in art history and cultural economics, has been a lecturer at the University of Melbourne and was a fine art auctioneer. More recently, Meaghan has been seduced by the dark side and now uses her expertise to write and research for film and TV. She lives in inner-city Melbourne with her husband and their two children. The Water Diviner was her first novel, which she co-wrote with her husband Andrew. The Honourable Thief was her first solo novel.