The House at Riverton : A Mystery-Filled Story of Tragedy and Buried Secrets from the Number One Bestselling Author - Kate Morton

The House at Riverton : A Mystery-Filled Story of Tragedy and Buried Secrets from the Number One Bestselling Author - Kate Morton

Kate Morton

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  • Pages · 624 pages
  • Publication Date · 13/04/2023
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Discover Kate Morton's multimillion-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 YearSummer, 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 . . . Readers love The House at Riverton by Kate Morton . . . 'I couldn't put it down''I felt fully immersed in the time and period''Kate Morton writes beautifully . . . a thought provoking story that will stay with you long after'

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