All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Jocelyn Moorhouse, ranked

Set in 1980s Brisbane, a clever young boy and his selectively mute brother embark on a suburban journey marked by love, redemption, and retribution. Their odyssey unfolds after their family is shattered by the actions of a drug lord.

In 1926, in the fictitious Australian outback town of Dungatar, schoolgirl Myrtle Dunnage is blamed for the death of classmate Stewart Pettyman and exiled from the town by local police sergeant Horatio Farrat. Twenty-five years later in 1951, Myrtle, now an accomplished dressmaker going by the name Tilly, returns to Dungatar.

Upon the retirement of an aging father, he bequeaths the prosperous family farm to his three daughters. However, this seemingly generous gesture sets off a chain reaction of explosive events that loom over the family, posing a threat to their unity and potentially tearing them apart forever.