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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, Kate Morton's The House at Riverton will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan's Atonement, L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, and lovers of the film Gosford Park.
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The House at Riverton, Kate Morton
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Kate Morton
- Verlag
- Pan Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2015
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 608
- ISBN10
- 150981082X
- ISBN13
- 9781509810826
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Krimi & Thriller, Romantik, Historische Romane, Krimi, Frauen, Britische Literatur, Geheimnisse, Gotik, Familiengeheimnisse, Verschmelzung von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, Unglückliche Liebe, Englischer Ländlicher Raum, Dienerschaft
- Originaltitel
- The shifting fog
- Bewertung
- 3,95 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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, Kate Morton's The House at Riverton will appeal to readers of Ian McEwan's Atonement, L.P. Hartley's The Go-Between, and lovers of the film Gosford Park.