White Heart

"We are all unique beyond imagining. We may seem alike, but our dreams are our own. Our secret longings and fears. Our responses and excuses may be passed down from generation to generation, but our hearts are only, and ever, our own."

The original cover designed for White Heart and published by Transworld in 1999. The novel was acquired by Allen & Unwin and republished in the new suite of designs in 2025.

A haunting blend of spirituality, landscape and grief – White Heart is an accomplished novel – an impressive debut.”

Sunday Times

White Heart

"We are all unique beyond imagining. We may seem alike, but our dreams are our own. Our secret longings and fears. Our responses and excuses may be passed down from generation to generation, but our hearts are only, and ever, our own."

A haunting blend of spirituality, landscape and grief – White Heart is an accomplished novel – an impressive debut.”

Further Reading…

Only available at Fullers Bookstore, Tasmania

A delicious crispness and an unusual turn of phrase.”

Spirituality permeates Heather Rose’s first novel, White Heart, as much as the past haunts it. This story is a complex of interwoven, sometimes chimeric themes…A-class debut.”