The Lake House

Informationen zum Autor Kate Morton was born in South Australia and grew up in the mountains of south-east Queensland. She has degrees in dramatic art and English literature, specializing in nineteenth-century tragedy and contemporary gothic novels. She is the author of T he House at Riverton , The Forgotten Garden, The Distant Hours, The Secret Keeper, The Lake House and The Clockmaker's Daughter , which have all been global number one bestsellers. Klappentext A missing child . . . June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever. An abandoned house . . . Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Detective Sadie Sparrow retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall. Once there, she stumbles upon an abandoned house, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace. An unsolved mystery . . . Meanwhile, in her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape . . . 'A fabulous page-turner' Daily Mail Zusammenfassung The beguiling fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper

Product details

• Authors: Kate Morton, Morton Kate
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.05.2016
• EAN: 9781509816460
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-1646-0
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 110 mm x 180 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Pan Books; Riverton; 161 POCHE; 161 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Australische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Cornwall, FICTION / Coming of Age, Historical romance, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1930 to c 1939, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)