The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, author of the bestselling The House of Riverton , is a heart-breaking story of love and loss with a devastating secret at its heart. Edie Burchill and her mother have never been close, but when a long lost letter arrives with the return address of Milderhurst Castle, Kent, printed on its envelope, Edie begins to suspect that her mother''s emotional distance masks an old secret. Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edie''s mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Millderhurst Castle with the Blythe family. Fifty years later, Edie too is drawn to Milderhurst and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now, the three still live together, the twins nursing Juniper, whose abandonment by her fiance in 1941 plunged her into madness. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother''s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst Castle, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in the distant hours has been waiting a long time for someone to find it . . .
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B>Originally published in 2007, Kate Morton's debut novel, The House at Riverton, became a bestselling sensation and won the Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year. This special tenth anniversary edition of Kate Morton's acclaimed debut features a foreword from the author. /b>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.
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Modern fiction The haunting second novel from the author of the The House At Riverton, which was voted by Richard & Judy's viewers the Best Summer Read 2007, and sold half a million copies. Linking events in England and Australia in 1913, 1975 and 1995, it's highly intelligent and accomplished commercial women's fiction, and will appeal to fans of Sarah Waters, Daphne Du Maurier and Kate Atkinson. Nell was abandoned as a child on the eve of the First World War, after a gruelling voyage from England to Australia. As she grows up, she becomes determined to discover the truth about her parentage.