The House at Riverton

by Kate Morton | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0330448447 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingBookAmblerwing of Isle of Lewis, Scotland United Kingdom on 1/23/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by wingBookAmblerwing from Isle of Lewis, Scotland United Kingdom on Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Kindly donated by staff at the Farm Shop, thank you :o)

Coincidentally it was a recent reading group book for me. The first one with unanimous agreement!

From the back cover;
A STORY OF LOVE, MYSTERY AND A SECRET HISTORY REVEALED

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 Riveton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and old 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 war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

I enjoyed reading this book. It was fairly slow paced, and perhaps overlong in the second half, but I appreciated the depiction of ‘upstairs’ and ‘downstairs’ life, post-war and into the changing Twenties.

The twist at the end was good (though I should have guessed what was going to happen!) and the story lingered with me for a while after finishing the book.

If you enjoyed this book you might also like to try Going Gently by David Nobbs. It’s another murder mystery (lighter hearted overall) with a nonagenarian turned detective!

Journal Entry 2 by wingBookAmblerwing at The Purple Dog, Eld Lane in Colchester, Essex United Kingdom on Friday, February 1, 2008

Released 16 yrs ago (2/1/2008 UTC) at The Purple Dog, Eld Lane in Colchester, Essex United Kingdom

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Journal Entry 3 by karen07814 from Colchester, Essex United Kingdom on Sunday, March 16, 2008
Pretty good for evocative writing. I'm not going to frequent her books though......I found myself dusting halfway through! My books are now nice and sparkly. It took a while to get into and people that knwo me know I don't do "slow" very well.
Summary, sets the scene very well but not a lot happens in it.

Journal Entry 4 by Seadbed from Layer de la Haye, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, April 3, 2008
To be read

Journal Entry 5 by karen07814 at New Lanark Visitor Centre in Lanark, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, April 26, 2008

Released 15 yrs ago (4/20/2008 UTC) at New Lanark Visitor Centre in Lanark, Scotland United Kingdom

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