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The House shipshape Riverton by Kate Morton. Educator Square Press; 2009. 484 pages. Paperback/Softcover.
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THE HOUSE AT RIVERTON | THE SHIFTING FOG
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– Could you keep a secret your entire life? –
Summer 1924: On the night 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, onetime 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.
Set as the Edwardian summer finally surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is the multimillion-copy bestselling novel, and one of the most successful debuts of all time.
– Sunday Times #1 Bestseller –
– New York Times Bestseller –
– 2007 Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year (winner) –
– 2008 National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year, UK (short-listed) –
– 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards (winner) –
– Nielsen
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While other reviewers have faulted The House at Riverton for being slow moving I think it moves along at just the right pace. In order to get to know Grace in all her complexity the plot couldn't be rushed. Peering, as we do, into her memories gives us a thorough understanding of where she has been, how she has evolved and who she currently is. It also establishes motivation for the actions of the people she summons up from her past. In the end I was glad to have become acquainted with Grace Reeves and a little sad that I would never get the chance to meet her face-to-face...continued
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(Reviewed by Donna Chavez).