Book description
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 of the film Gosford Park.
Kate Morton was born in 1976 and grew up in the mountains of South
East Queensland, Australia. She has degrees in Dramatic Art and
English Literature, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the
University of Queensland. Kate lives with her husband and young son in
a hundred-year-old house in Brisbane. The House at Riverton is her
first novel.
