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 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 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 . . . 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' Zusammenfassung 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.

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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 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 . . .

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'

Zusammenfassung
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.