The House at Riverton aka The Shifting Fog
Автор:
Morton KateЖанр:
Современная проза;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-12-02Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
126
Sainsbury's Popular Fiction Award (nominee) 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, 98, one-time housemaid of 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. A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story, 'The House at Riverton' will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement', L P Hartley's 'The Go-Between', and lovers...
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