The House at Riverton

Kate Morton

2008 Nominee

National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year

15 June 2017
9781509841417
624 pages

Synopsis

Discover Kate Morton's multi-million copy bestselling debut novel, The House at Riverton, a mesmerising story of tragedy and buried secrets. This special tenth anniversary edition features a special foreword from the author.

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 . . .

A rollicking good yarn of the sort you might devour in a single weekend
An extraordinary debut . . . Told with a lovely turn of phrase by someone who knows how to eke out tantalising secrets and drama . . . A fascinating time in history, and Morton brings it to life with obvious attention to detail and thorough research
An extremely accomplished mystery story . . . haunting and enthralling . . . exquisite not only in the writing but also in the structure