Author: Morton, Kate
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 13 April 2023 by PAN MACMILLAN (Pan Books) in the United Kingdom.
Paperback | 624 pages
197 x 130 x 41 | 436g
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 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 . . .