Adelaide Hills, 1959. La veille de Noël, la tragédie s'abat sur le domaine des Turner. Une enquête est ouverte, et la petite ville de Tambilla est bientôt associée à l'une des affaires de meurtre les plus choquantes et les plus inexplicables de l'Australie du Sud. Soixante ans plus tard, Jess, journaliste à Londres, doit retourner à Sidney lorsque sa grand-mère est hospitalisée. Livrée à elle-même dans la maison de son enfance, elle s'aventure dans des pièces qui lui étaient interdites et découvre qu'il pourrait bien exister un lien secret entre sa famille et le drame des Turner...
La maison de campagne de la famille Edevane, Loeanneth, est impeccable et étincelante, prête pour la fête tant attendue de la Saint-Jean. Alice Edevane, seize ans et écrivaine en herbe, est particulièrement excitée. Mais lorsque minuit sonne et que les feux d'artifice illuminent le ciel nocturne, un drame se produit. Le petit Théo Edevane, onze mois, disparaît soudainement. La police remue ciel et terre, mais l'enfant demeure introuvable. Bouleversée par cette tragédie, la famille Edevane quitte Loeanneth pour toujours. Soixante-dix ans plus tard, la jeune inspectrice Sadie Sparrow reprend l'enquête et découvre les secrets que renferme cette maison, au grand dam de l'une des soeurs de Theo, Alice, devenue écrivaine à succès...
Été 1924, manoir de Riverton. L'étoile montante de la poésie anglaise, lord Robert Hunter, se donne la mort lors d'une soirée mondaine. Les soeurs Emmeline et Hannah Hartford, seules personnes présentes au moment du drame, cessent alors de s'adresser la parole. Selon la rumeur, l'une était la fiancée de la victime et l'autre son amante... 1999. Une jeune réalisatrice décide de faire un film autour de ce scandale et prend contact avec le dernier témoin vivant, Grace Bradley, ancienne domestique au château. Grace s'est toujours efforcée d'oublier cette nuit-là. Mais les fantômes du passé ne demandent qu'à se réveiller...
Lorsqu'elle reçoit une lettre égarée depuis cinquante ans, Meredith Burchill se retrouve confrontée à un passé qu'elle a toujours dissimulé. En 1939, comme de nombreux autres enfants, elle a dû fuir Londres sous les bombes. Recueillie par une famille d'aristocrates du Kent, elle a noué une solide amitié avec la cadette, Juniper. Pourquoi Meredith n'a-t-elle rien dit de cet épisode de sa vie ? Afin de comprendre son silence, sa fille Edie part à la découverte du château de Milderhurst, qui recèle de nombreux mystères...
2011. La célèbre actrice Laurel Nicolson se rend auprès de sa mère mourante, dans le Suffolk. Alors qu'elle replonge dans les souvenirs de sa famille, elle découvre une photographie qu'elle ne reconnaît pas. L'une des deux femmes sur le cliché est sa mère, Dorothy, mais qui est l'autre ? Débute alors une enquête qui va exhumer une montagne de secrets. Ceux de Dorothy, mais aussi ceux de Laurel, hantée par cette terrible journée d'été de son enfance...
Londres, été 2017. Ce n'est qu'une vieille sacoche en cuir. Une de plus, à inventorier. Mais pour Elodie, jeune archiviste que ses fiançailles avec un golden-boy n'enthousiasment guère, c'est une révélation. Qui est cette belle femme en tenue victorienne, sur ce portrait jauni ? Et pourquoi ce manoir sur la Tamise, peint si délicatement, lui semble-t-il familier ? Entrant comme par effraction dans un mystère vieux de cent cinquante ans où se croisent un célèbre peintre préraphaélite, sa muse, et la disparition sanglante d'un diamant hors de prix, Elodie remonte bientôt le cours du temps - pour mieux échapper à son présent ?
The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia.
Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital.
At Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event - a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.
An epic story that spans generations, Homecoming asks what we would do for those we love, how we protect the lies we tell, and what it means to come home. Above all, it is an intricate and spellbinding novel from one of the finest writers working today.
''Draws you in from the very first page . . . Utterly absorbing'' - Daily Mail
A moving and powerful mystery, The Forgotten Garden is the second novel from bestselling author Kate Morton.
1913. On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished.
1975. Now in her sixties, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst Manor. What has prompted Nell''s journey after all these years?
2005. On Nell''s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritance: Cliff Cottage. And it is at the long-abandoned cottage, situated in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, that Cassandra will uncover the truth about her grandmother and why she was abandoned all those decades before.
The Lake House by Kate Morton is the mysterious and enchanting fifth novel from the number one bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper.
June 1933, and the Edevane family''s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she''s also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn''t. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.
Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, DC Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather''s cottage in Cornwall, but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. That is until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family''s past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape . . .
Kate Morton''s heartbreaking novel, The Secret Keeper, is a spellbinding story of mysteries and secrets, murder and enduring love, moving between the 1930s, the 1960s and the 2010s.
1961: On a sweltering summer''s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree-house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can''t wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.
2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds - Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy - who are brought together by chance in war-time London and whose lives become fiercely and fatefully entwined.
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.
From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden, Kate Morton brings us her trademark mix of secrets, lies, and intricately layered mysteries in The Clockmaker''s Daughter.
My real name, no one remembers.
The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the depths of a nineteenth-century winter, a little girl is abandoned in the narrow streets of London. Adopted by a mysterious stranger, she becomes in turn a thief, a friend, a muse, and a lover. Then, in the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she retreats with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a quiet bend of the Upper Thames . . . Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time.
Over the next century and beyond, Birchwood Manor welcomes many newcomers but guards its secret closely - until another young woman is drawn to visit the house because of a family secret of her own . . .
As the mystery begins to unravel, we discover the stories of those who have passed through Birchwood Manor since that fateful day in 1862. Intricately layered and richly atmospheric, it shows that, sometimes, the only way forward is through the past.
A moving and powerful mystery, The Forgotten Garden is the bestselling second novel from Kate Morton.
1913. On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to Australia. All she can remember of the journey is that a mysterious woman she calls the Authoress had promised to look after her. But the Authoress has vanished without a trace.
1975. Now an old lady, Nell travels to England to discover the truth about her parentage. Her quest leads her to Cornwall, and to a beautiful estate called Blackhurst Manor, which had been owned by the Mountrachet family. What has prompted Nell''s journey after all these years?
2005. On Nell''s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into a surprise inheritance. Cliff Cottage, in the grounds of Blackhurst Manor, is notorious amongst the locals for the secrets it holds - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family. But it is at long-abandoned Cliff Cottage, and in its forgotten garden, that Cassandra will uncover the truth about the Mountrachets - and why the young Nell was abandoned all those decades before . . .
The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, author of the bestselling The House of Riverton, is a heartbreaking 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, 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 was chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhurst 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 as the twins nurse 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 to be uncovered . . .
En 1913, sur le port de Brisbane, en Australie, une petite fille est retrouvée abandonnée sur un bateau arrivant d'Angleterre. Le jour de son vingt et unième anniversaire, Nell apprend qu'elle a été adoptée et décide de partir à la recherche de son passé, dans un manoir de Cornouailles. Passé et présent se mêlent dans ce roman tout en finesse et en poésie.
Modern fictionThis novel about love, loss and long-buried family secrets should appeal to fans of Ian McEwan's Atonement, Sarah Waters, Kate Atkinson and the film Gosford Park.
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.
