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The house at Riverton (10th anniversary edition)

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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 YearSummer, 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 . . .

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Product Details
Pan Books
1509841415 / 9781509841417
Paperback / softback
823.92
15/06/2017
United Kingdom
English
Thrillers
vii, 597 pages
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: as The shifting fog. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2006.