The House at Riverton

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 long-ago tragedy resurfaces in The House at Riverton , the haunting and multi-million copy bestselling debut novel from Kate Morton, presented in a beautiful new edition. Zusammenfassung Discover Kate Morton's multi-million copy bestselling debut novel, The House at Riverton , a mesmerising story of tragedy and buried secrets, with this new edition. Winner of the Richard and Judy Book Club Best Read of the Year Summer, 1924. On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter, 1999. Grace Bradley, ninety-eight, one-time housemaid at Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken, and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten, but Grace never could . . .

Product details

• Authors: Kate Morton, Morton Kate
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.04.2023
• EAN: 9781529092158
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9215-8
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; England, Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, 20th Century, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, c 1920 to c 1929, c 1990 to c 1999